Statuta Venetorum
Subtitle: 1242-1346.
Contributors: Tiepolo, Jacopo, d. 1249.; Dandolo, Andrea, ca. 1307-1354.; Venice (Republic : To 1797).; Venice (Republic : To 1797).; Venice (Republic : To 1797).
Published: 1346
Place of publication: [Venice?]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Law -- Italy -- Venice -- Sources.; Manuscripts, Italian -- Washington (D.C.)
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Liber statutorum et legum Venetorum; Liber statutorum et legum Venetorum illustris domini Jacobi Tiepoli.; De maleficiis puniendis.; Additiones et correctiones conditae super statutis et legibus Venetorum per gloriosissimum et excellentissimum dominum Andream Dandulo.
Notes: Ricci, S. de.  Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 115, V45
Dobbs & Haun.  Law Library of LC, p. 45
Ms.
Title from Ricci, S. de.  Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.)
Text begins, f. 1a: [red:] In xp̄i nomine Amen. Incipit p[ro]logus libri statu/torum et legum Venetorum ... [after initial D, black:] (D)EO auctore ducatum[ost]r[u]m ...
Written, no doubt in Venice, all by one scribe, in 33 long lines per page; written area 193 x 125 mm.
Parchment of southern preparation; ink of uneven intensity; the script is pre-humanistic gothic of the "libraria" level, done with wide pen tip, verticals emphasized.
Red captions; numerous minor initials (1 or 2 lines high) in alternating blue and red, flourished in the other color, in Italian style.
Illuminated initials: f. 1a (D, with port. of St. Mark), 2a, 4a, 7a, 22a, 27b, 41b, 52a, 57a (hooded executioner[?]), 63a (port. of Doge Andrea Dandolo).
Signatures: [1-7]⁸ [8]⁶ [9-10]⁸ [11-12]⁶; some gatherings have leaf signatures (ij, 3 or iij, 4)
Former owners: prior to 1730, family Hoffman(n) von Grünbüchel und Stechau (engraved full-page exlibris on paper bifolium inserted in front includes coat of arms); item 379 in the sale Bibliothek Fürst Dietrichstein in 1933; purchased by LC Law Library from Martha A. Herzfelder in 1940.
Rebound in 1999 at LC in white tawed pigskin over wooden boards; kept in a box 37 x 27 x 12.5 cm with a compartment holding old parchment covers of ca. 1600; laid-in are 4 ms. fragments and a folder of correspondence dated 1940-1944.
Table of contents: value: Liber statutorum et legum Venetorum illustris domini Jacobi Tiepoli (with two prologues and list of chapters; main text, in 5 books, originally of 1242, ff. 7a-56b); value: [Promissio de maleficiis] (Jacopo Tiepolo's 1232 revision of Enrico Tiepolo's document of 1195; ff. 57a-62b); value: Additiones et correctiones conditae super statutis et legibus Venetorum / per Andream Dandulo [Dandolo] ; una cum aliis predecessorum suorum reformationibus ("Liber sextus" of Venetian laws, dated 1346; ff. 63a-90a)