MS. Douce 339

Summary Catalogue no.: 21914

Statutes of the Council of Forty at Venice with additions up to 1401

Rubric: Incipit Capitulare Dominorum XL

Incipit: Tempore vero, quo ero xl., non accipiam aliquod aliud officium nisi de voluntate majoris nostrum xl.

Chapter 5: 'Quod. xl. non possint accipere aliquod officium nisi de voluntate majoris partis de xl'

With additions dated 1309–1395

Fol. 16: 'Capitulare Dominorum Capitum de quadraginta,' with additions dated 1306–1401

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 33 + ii fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 235 mm.

Layout

1 col., 22 lines, 170 × 135 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 435, Pl. XLII

Fine borders

Fine initials

History

Origin: before 1401 (1394?) ; Italy, Venice

Provenance and Acquisition

'On fol. 12 the last entry in the original hand is for 1393, 5 January; on fol. 35v the last entry in the original hand is for 1392, 12 December' (Watson).

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897) and the Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, esq. to the Bodleian Library (1840). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 599

Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, p. 59

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 474

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09-21: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed sources

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