Laws and statutes of Pisa

Description

Title: Laws and statutes of Pisa
Published / Created: [between 1200 and 1215]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of the earliest known redaction of the Constituta legis et usus of Pisa, issued ca. 1146-56.
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by three scribes in well formed bookhands. Scribe 1: ff. 1v (1r erased)-20r; Scribe 2: ff. 20r-38v; Scribe 3: ff. 39r-62v.
Decorative initial, 7-line, f. 1r, in red and black with simple foliage designs in interior; red initial, 4-line, at beginning of art. 3, f. 18v; rubrics throughout, some perpendicular to text in margins. Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and paragraph marks, in red; on f. 15v only, two initials, 1-line, and paragraph mark in blue. Guide-letters for rubricator in gutter or margins.
Folio 1r almost entirely erased and illegible.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound with reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards. Paper label, with title "Statuta Civitatis Pisanae An. 1186" written in ink on spine.
Provenance: Purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 4582). Acquired from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston who presented it to the Beinecke Library in 1969.
Extent: ff. i + 62 + i + i : 275 x 183 (185 x 117) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Italy
Pisa (Italy)
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Politics and government
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > Politics and government > 476-1268
Pisa (Italy)
Italy > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Laws and Statutes of Pisa. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.