Liber legu[m] et co[n]suetudinu[m] Imperij Romanie, app[ro]batar[um] in [Con]sillio [sic] Rogator[um] vigore part[is] capte in dicto Consilio q[ue] est anotata in principio huius librj.
Contributors: Venice (Republic, to 1797).
Published: 1453
Language: ita
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Law -- Italy -- Venice -- Colonies.; Manuscripts, Italian.; Negropont (Venetian colony); Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508 -- Sources.; Venice (Italy) -- Colonies -- History -- Sources.
Other titles: Liber legum et consuetudinum Imperii Romaniae.; Uxanze de lo Imperio dè Romania.
Notes: Ms.
In Venetian dialect of Italian; authorization by Venetian Republic in Latin.
Title from caption on prelim. leaf 1b.
The primary text begins (leaf 1a): Questo si he lo libro dele vxance delo Imperio de Romania ...
Spine title: Uxanze de lo Imperio dè Romania.
The text on leaves 1a-46a is a version, with a prologue and 219 chapters, of a code known as Liber (legum et) consuetudinum Imperii Romanie, or Assizes of Romania, which preexisted by a century or more the issuance in 1453 by Venetian authorities (Doge Foscari and the Consiglio dei rogati) of the present version, expressly edited for use in the Venetian colony of Negropont.
In the present codex, the ducal letter envelopes (precedes and concludes) the ancient code together with 37 "Capitolli azonti."
Purchased in 1947 from H.P. Kraus (order no. LL 5452F18; for a time referred to as no. L5 in LC Law Library).
The ducal letter, the Capitolli azonti, 6 other chapters of uncertain status, and a list of captions at end are written in a mercantile hand strikingly different from the humanistic script, captioned in red, in which the old code is copied.
Colophon on 46r identifying the primary scribe as Fel(l)ix was probably copied from a 13th-cent. exemplar.