Legal documents

Description

Title: Legal documents
Published / Created: [between 1299 and 1472]
Publication Place: Crete
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick, repaired) of a Collection of original documents, copies, translations (from Greek and Turkish) of other documents of the Venetian doges of Candia, dated between 1299 and 1472, mostly in Latin with some later documents in Venetian dialect
Description: In Latin and Italian.
Script: Written throughout by multiple scribes in mercantesca scripts.
Many of the leaves are illegible due to severe water damage and damp rot throughout; the codex emits a foul odor.
Binding: Ca. 1800, Italy. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a gold-tooled red label on spine: "Monum. di Cand. Sotto il Dom. Ven. Cod. Memb".
Provenance: Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 11868). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + 148 + ii : 340 x 250 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Crete (Greece) 14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Crete (Greece) 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Crete (Greece)
Ērakleion (Greece)
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic): Legal documents
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Legal documents
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Crete (Greece) > History
Ērakleion (Greece)
Venice (Italy) > History > 697-1508
Crete (Greece) > 14th century
Crete (Greece) > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Legal documents. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.