Copies of documents include many dealing with military arrangements, some particularly against the Turks; law; decisions regarding pardons for individuals; religious dissent (goods and persons of "false Christians" may be seized, f. 14v; Lutherans to be arrested, f. 19v); privileges for the "Collegium germanicum" at Bologna (f. 20v); establishment of a medical faculty at Milan, "facultas creandi doctores in medicina" (f. 31r). The fact that one document is in French and that the notarial hand shows French characteristics, also the inclusion of some items relating to Switzerland (including one to Lausanne) make it appear likely that this manuscript was executed in the northwest of Lombardy. Prayer against the plague on last leaf.
146 leaves : paper; 306 x 205 (243 x 152) mm bound to 310 x 228 mm
Personal Name:
Paganthus, L., former owner.
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Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Probably written in the northwest of Lombardy, after 1530 (f. 14v, 17v).; Ms. codex.; Incipit: Carolus quintus augustus divina favente clementia Imperator Romanorum ac Germaniae ... (f. 5r).; Foliation: Paper, 146; [iv], 1-132, [133-142]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 37-38 long lines, with notes in the left margin.; Binding: Contemporary vellum.; Decoration: Occasional line drawings in the margins: coat of arms (f. 29r, 61r), face (f. 32r), eagles (f. 130v).; Script: Written in one documentary hand through f. 131v, with additions in several hands; marginal notes in a different hand from text.; Latin, with one document in French.
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