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STATUTES OF PADUA of 1420, with additional documents, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER.
[Padua], 10 May 1463
Super-royal 2° (435 x 290mm). 122 leaves, COMPLETE; a10 b12 c-m10 (m8-10 blank but ruled; m10 pasted to rear cover), traces of signatures in lower right corner on first recto, horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on last verso of most quires, modern pencilled foliation 1-121, double columns of 60-64 lines, vertical margins ruled in lead, horizontal lines in pale brown ink, justification: 285 x 160mm, written in brown ink in a fere humanistica bookhand, a few rubrics in red, mostly unrubricated with blanks for section headings and initial spaces, a few notes for the rubricator visible in the upper margin, book numbers centered in the upper margin on the rectos (contemporary marginalia, largely erased from ff.23-70v; margins thumbed and frayed, light stains on f.1, inner margins slightly wormed). 16th-century vellum over pasteboard (wormed, frayed, front joint repaired), modern green cloth box.
PROVENANCE:
1. The manuscript was copied in 1462-1463, as shown by the colophons to Book III: 'Explicit liber tertius. Anno domini 1462, die 24 decembris, hora secunda noctis' (f.93v); Book IV: 'Explicit liber quartus, die secundo aprilis 1463, hora vigesima' (f.110v); and Book V: 'Explicit liber quintus Statutorum comunis padue die decimo mensis madii anno domini 1463' (f.119v).
2. A note in a 16th-century hand on the first flyleaf indicates that the book was in use at this period: 'Libro aprontade nel presente officio delle rason vecchio per le eccellente messer giulio gasparo [?] nella causa ha con messer francesco capo delista el Rubrica Qual disse eser gli statuti de padoa che sono all'officio dal'orso'.
CONTENTS:
Document of Francesco Foscari, doge of Venice, dated 23 June 1429, addressed to Giovanni Contareno, podestà of Padua, transmitting the statutes (f.1-v); capitula (f.2-v); document of 'Marcus Dandulo potestas et Laurencius Bragadino capitaneus padue', dated 1420, concerning the redaction of the statutes (f.3-v); Book I: De iurisdictione et officio magistratuum (ff.3v-22v); Book II: De ratione reddenda in causis ciuilibus (ff.23-60v); Book III: De maleficiis (ff.63-93v); Book IV: De manutenendis ecclesiis et priuillegiis clericorum (ff.95-110v); Book V: De factionibus imponendis (ff.111-119v).
The earliest collections of the statutues of Padua date from 1276 and 1362. The present 'reformed statutes' were promulgated in 1420, as part of a general revision of legislation under the government of Venice, which had taken control of Padua in 1405. The compilation, representing a rationalization of previous statutes, customs and privileges, was drafted by the humanist Sicco Polenton. Book II was printed in the 15th century (Vicenza: Leonardus de Basilia, 1482) and reprinted in the 16th (Venice, 1528). Other manuscript copies are two codices of the 15th century in the possession of the Museo Civico of Padua and one in the Archivio Comunale of the city.
In addition to the text of the statutes, the present manuscript contains a number of supplementary texts in the hand of the original copyist, entered in the margins or in blank spaces at the ends of books. These include 14 letters of Francesco Foscari, dated 1423-41; a letter of Pasquale Malipiero, dated 3 February 1457; 2 documents, dated 22 June 1459, and 27 October 1412; and 2 added texts with the titles 'Constitucio sinodalis registrata in statuto malleficiorum', and 'Constitucio sinodalis de monasteriis monialium non intrandis'.
[Padua], 10 May 1463
Super-royal 2° (435 x 290mm). 122 leaves, COMPLETE; a10 b12 c-m10 (m8-10 blank but ruled; m10 pasted to rear cover), traces of signatures in lower right corner on first recto, horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on last verso of most quires, modern pencilled foliation 1-121, double columns of 60-64 lines, vertical margins ruled in lead, horizontal lines in pale brown ink, justification: 285 x 160mm, written in brown ink in a fere humanistica bookhand, a few rubrics in red, mostly unrubricated with blanks for section headings and initial spaces, a few notes for the rubricator visible in the upper margin, book numbers centered in the upper margin on the rectos (contemporary marginalia, largely erased from ff.23-70v; margins thumbed and frayed, light stains on f.1, inner margins slightly wormed). 16th-century vellum over pasteboard (wormed, frayed, front joint repaired), modern green cloth box.
PROVENANCE:
1. The manuscript was copied in 1462-1463, as shown by the colophons to Book III: 'Explicit liber tertius. Anno domini 1462, die 24 decembris, hora secunda noctis' (f.93v); Book IV: 'Explicit liber quartus, die secundo aprilis 1463, hora vigesima' (f.110v); and Book V: 'Explicit liber quintus Statutorum comunis padue die decimo mensis madii anno domini 1463' (f.119v).
2. A note in a 16th-century hand on the first flyleaf indicates that the book was in use at this period: 'Libro aprontade nel presente officio delle rason vecchio per le eccellente messer giulio gasparo [?] nella causa ha con messer francesco capo delista el Rubrica Qual disse eser gli statuti de padoa che sono all'officio dal'orso'.
CONTENTS:
Document of Francesco Foscari, doge of Venice, dated 23 June 1429, addressed to Giovanni Contareno, podestà of Padua, transmitting the statutes (f.1-v); capitula (f.2-v); document of 'Marcus Dandulo potestas et Laurencius Bragadino capitaneus padue', dated 1420, concerning the redaction of the statutes (f.3-v); Book I: De iurisdictione et officio magistratuum (ff.3v-22v); Book II: De ratione reddenda in causis ciuilibus (ff.23-60v); Book III: De maleficiis (ff.63-93v); Book IV: De manutenendis ecclesiis et priuillegiis clericorum (ff.95-110v); Book V: De factionibus imponendis (ff.111-119v).
The earliest collections of the statutues of Padua date from 1276 and 1362. The present 'reformed statutes' were promulgated in 1420, as part of a general revision of legislation under the government of Venice, which had taken control of Padua in 1405. The compilation, representing a rationalization of previous statutes, customs and privileges, was drafted by the humanist Sicco Polenton. Book II was printed in the 15th century (Vicenza: Leonardus de Basilia, 1482) and reprinted in the 16th (Venice, 1528). Other manuscript copies are two codices of the 15th century in the possession of the Museo Civico of Padua and one in the Archivio Comunale of the city.
In addition to the text of the statutes, the present manuscript contains a number of supplementary texts in the hand of the original copyist, entered in the margins or in blank spaces at the ends of books. These include 14 letters of Francesco Foscari, dated 1423-41; a letter of Pasquale Malipiero, dated 3 February 1457; 2 documents, dated 22 June 1459, and 27 October 1412; and 2 added texts with the titles 'Constitucio sinodalis registrata in statuto malleficiorum', and 'Constitucio sinodalis de monasteriis monialium non intrandis'.