Assise del alta corte del regno di Hierusalem et Cypro, tradutte da francese in lingua italiana, de ordine dela ser[enissi]mo ducal signoria de Venetia

Contributor:

Bustron, Florio, approximately 1500-1570 (translator); North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827 (former owner); Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 (former owner); Luke, Harry, Sir, 1884-1969 (former owner); Rosenwald, Lessing J. 1891-1979 (donor)

Name:

Giovanni, di Ibelin, 13th century

Timespan:

Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244

Date:

1533

Description:

Translation from the French text of Jean d'Ibelin, by Florio Bustron (cf. f. 23v). The date of this manuscript, before the printing of 1535, suggests that this may be the holograph of Florio Bustron.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (armorial bookplate, motto La vertu est la seule noblesse, inside upper cover).; Sold at auction as part of the collection of the late Earl of Guilford, Part 1, by R. H. Evans (London), 15-24 December 1828, lot 403.; Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his ms. 5684.; Sold at auction as part of the Phillipps collection, 19 May 1913, lot 656.; Formerly owned by Sir Harry Luke (pencil note, Bought by H. Luke, 1912 or 1913, front flyleaf verso).; Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1957 (library bookplate, inside front cover).

Subject:

Courts -- Jerusalem -- History -- Sources; Feudal law -- Jerusalem -- Sources; Law -- Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom); Law; Procedure (Law) -- Jerusalem -- History -- Sources; Procedure (Law); History; Feudal law; Courts

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Italian -- 16th century; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Sources

Physical Description:

349 leaves : paper; 300 x 215 (223 x 145) mm bound to 314 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 -- Sources

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 23v) and Zacour-Hirsch; abbreviated title on f. 18r.; Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 349 + i (17th-century paper); [1-349]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in an italic or humanistic cursive script by one hand, with notes in a second hand dated 1535 (f. 23r-v, f. 349).; Binding: 17th-century vellum (Zacour-Hirsch); spine label with gilt title Assise o sia dell'alt. cort. di Hier. e Cipr., MS.; Origin: Written in Cyprus or Venice, 3 January 1533 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 492