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Manuscript/Mixed Material Statuta Venetorum : 1242-1346 [Title from incipit:] Liber statutorum et legum Venetorum

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Title

  • Statuta Venetorum : 1242-1346

Other Title

  • [Title from incipit:] Liber statutorum et legum Venetorum

Names

  • Venice (Republic : To 1797)
  • Dandolo, Andrea, approximately 1307-1354
  • Tiepolo, Jacopo, -1249

Created / Published

  • [Venice?], [between 1346 and 1400]

Contents

  • Liber statutorum et legum Venetorum illustris domini Jacobi Tiepoli (with two prologues and list of chapters; main text, in 5 books, originally of 1242, ff. 7a-56b) -- [Promissio de maleficiis] (Jacopo Tiepolo's 1232 revision of Enrico Tiepolo's document of 1195; ff. 57a-62b) -- Additiones et correctiones conditae super statutis et legibus Venetorum / per Andream Dandulo [Dandolo] ; una cum aliis predecessorum suorum reformationibus ("Liber sextus" of Venetian laws, dated 1346; ff. 63a-90a)

Headings

  • -  Law--Italy--Venice--Sources
  • -  Manuscripts, Italian--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Former owners: prior to 1730, family Hoffman(n) von Grünbüchel und Stechau (engraved full-page exlibris on paper bifolium inserted in front includes coat of arms); item 379 in the sale Bibliothek Fürst Dietrichstein in 1933; purchased by LC Law Library from Martha A. Herzfelder in 1940.
  • -  Illuminated initials: f. 1a (D, with port. of St. Mark), 2a, 4a, 7a, 22a, 27b, 41b, 52a, 57a (hooded executioner[?]), 63a (port. of Doge Andrea Dandolo).
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Parchment of southern preparation; ink of uneven intensity; the script is pre-humanistic gothic of the "libraria" level, done with wide pen tip, verticals emphasized.
  • -  Rebound in 1999 at LC in white tawed pigskin over wooden boards; kept in a box 37 x 27 x 12.5 cm with a compartment holding old parchment covers of ca. 1600; laid-in are 4 ms. fragments and a folder of correspondence dated 1940-1944.
  • -  Red captions; numerous minor initials (1 or 2 lines high) in alternating blue and red, flourished in the other color, in Italian style.
  • -  Signatures: [1-7]⁸ [8]⁶ [9-10]⁸ [11-12]⁶; some gatherings have leaf signatures (ij, 3 or iij, 4)
  • -  Text begins, f. 1a: [red:] In xp̄i nomine Amen. Incipit p[ro]logus libri statu/torum et legum Venetorum ... [after initial D, black:] (D)EO auctore ducatum[ost]r[u]m ...
  • -  Title from Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.)
  • -  Written, no doubt in Venice, all by one scribe, in 33 long lines per page; written area 193 x 125 mm.
  • -  Dobbs & Haun. Law Library of LC, p. 45
  • -  Ricci, S. de. Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 115, V45
  • -  Old shelf mark: LAW .

Medium

  • 90 leaves (33 long lines), bound : parchment ; 31 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KKH8501.A17 V46 1346

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99478565

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Venice, Andrea Dandolo, and Jacopo Tiepolo. Statuta Venetorum: -1346. [Venice?, between 1346 and 1400, 1346] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/99478565/.

APA citation style:

Venice, Dandolo, A. & Tiepolo, J. (1346) Statuta Venetorum: -1346. [Venice?, between 1346 and 1400] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99478565/.

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Venice, Andrea Dandolo, and Jacopo Tiepolo. Statuta Venetorum: -1346. [Venice?, between 1346 and 1400, 1346] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/99478565/>.