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Miscellaneous Venetian decrees dated from 1514 to 1620
Title
Miscellaneous Venetian decrees dated from 1514 to 1620.
Publication
[Venice] : Stampata in Calle dalle Rasse, [between 1548? and 1620?]
Physical Description
1 enclosure (40 items) ; 21 cm
Local Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library Rare26 23-0003 copy purchased from Fkatz Books in May, 2018.
Hicks classification: Italy V55 18 1514-1620.
Notes
Collection title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographical description partially taken from the information provided by the vendor.
Title page vignettes (Lion of St. Mark, the symbol of the patron saint of Venice); historiated and floriated initials.
Place of publication inferred from the activities of the publisher. Most of the pamphlets have "Stampata in Calle dalle Rasse" and some have "Stampata in Calle dalle Rasse, per il Rampazetto" on the title pages.
Date of publication inferred from the dates of the decrees.
Summary
A collection of 40 Venetian decrees (Partes Presa, Ordeni, Capatoli, etc.), all in quarto format and once part of a bound volume, but disbound. All but one have a manuscript number in the upper right hand corner indicating the order in which they were bound. The decrees date from 1514 to 1620 and range from 2 to 6 leaves. Topics include bills of exchange, sellers of oil, regulation of the sale and import of silk and cloth, regulation of rivers, coinage and counterfeiting, sale of fish by weight, bandits, exchange rates, import of grain, taxes, monasteries, hospitals, feuds, restrictions on wearing pearls, and election of various officials.
Format
Other
Language
Italian
Added to Catalog
March 16, 2023
Subjects
Genre/Form
Resolutions (Law)
Also listed under
Farley P. Katz Collection of Italian City-State Laws and Decrees (Yale Law Library)
Italy Venice,
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