ZENO, Marcus.

by Marcus Zeno

£36,000 · Offered by Sokol Books

Decorated manuscript on paper. Provenance: Written for the use of Jacobus Menutiis/Minutiis, with his ownership inscriptions three times on the front endleaves and his arms and initials also, clearly produced for his practical use as a lawyer in Treviso and the vicinity. One of these ex libris gives his profession as a notary. Copies of this definitively local text seem to have always been few, and this manuscript was probably made directly from the original compendium held in the regional palatio of Treviso (see below). Text: This text announces in its prologue that it was called the Zena in Venetian Italian, and contains a compendium of laws and statutes local to the town of Treviso, a small town to the north east of Venice was under the direct rule of the Venetian doges throughout the Renaissance. It was commanded to be assembled by Marcus Zeno "de venetii", lord of Treviso, in 1390 (the date given here mistakenly 1290 ), and the Venetian name of the text in fact was taken from the name given to the original manuscript of the compendium kept in the regional palatio of Treviso. That original codex is now lost, but a copy survives in another compendium of the early fifteenth-century copy (probably of .c. 1411), now in the archives of the Museo Civico of nearby Asolo (see G. Farronato and G. Netto, .Gli Statuti del Comune di Treviso (1316-1390) secondo il codice di Asolo, 1988), and that has been claimed as the earliest recorded manuscript. We have located only two others, bo

• Binding: Hardcover

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