[Assizes of Romania]

Timespan:

Fourth, 1202-1204

Date:

1500

Description:

Statutes, etc. of the Latin empire of Constantinople (f. 1r-37r). Also contains a section on Achaea (f. 37v-38v); a list of obscure words (f. 39v); and an index (f. 40r-43v).

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jacopo Soranzo (typical Soranzo binding and spine label 601).; Formerly owned by Matteo Canonici (according to J. B. Mitchell, some of Soranzo's manuscripts went to Sneyd via Canonici); sold from the Canonici collection to Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover), 1835.; Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 749.; Sold by C. A. Stonehill (New Haven, Conn.), 1951.; Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761, former owner.; Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner.; Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.

Subject:

Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204; Feudal law -- Achaea (Principality); Feudal law; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Statutes; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

43 leaves : paper; 283 x 193 (195 x 135) mm bound to 290 x 196 mm

Geographic Subject:

Latin Empire, 1204-1261 -- Statutes; Byzantine Empire -- History; Byzantine Empire

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Title from heading (f. 1r): Statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania (version on spine label: Statuti & usanz. dell' imp. di Roman.).; Title from f. [i] verso: Statuti dell'imperio Latino-Constantinopolitano. This is written in blue pencil in a later hand.; Heading on f. 1r: Questo sie libro de statuti et usanze del imperio de Romania ordinade et stabilide al tempo de li serenissimi signori conte balduini de fiandra misser Bonifacio marchese de monfera [i.e. Montferrata?]: misser Rigodandulo doxe de venexia: e molti altri baroni: In el tempo che fo conquestado lo imperio de Constantinopoli: MCIIII [sic; with small circles over the M, C and fourth I].; Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 43 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-3¹⁰, 4¹², 5²; [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords written vertically, top to bottom, lower right corner of last verso of each quire.; Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script.; Binding: 18th-century[?] Italian vellum over pasteboards. Endpapers have an imprinted design with gold leaf. (The binding is typical of Soranzo's books; see J. B. Mitchell, p. 130.). Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." Bodleian Lib. Record, v. VIII, no. 3, (February 1969), pp. 125-135.; Origin: Written in Venice[?] in the early 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; All of the leaves show water and mildew damage.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 61