Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

tailed commercial procedure. Accounting procedures are prescribed, and
special measures are taken by the authorities to punish fraudulent dealings
and recover bad debts. In the second part all the relevant legislation is reprinted,
beginning with the statutes Wrst approved in October of 1429, and
containing all amendments and decrees up to 1787. A Wnal very detailed
general index extending to some thirty-Wve pages makes it easy to identify
all relevant rulings.
Chelazzi, Catalogo della Raccolta de Statuti, I, p. 273; Manzoni II, 22; RLIN lists
copies at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard and Michigan.
Statutes of the City of Siena – Regulating City Life
296 [STATUTES – SIENA.] Statuti dell’Università de’ Mercanti, e
della Corte de gl’OYziali della Mercanzia della Città di Siena.
Riformati per comandamento del Sereniss. Don Cosimo II, Gran
Duca Quarto di Toscana. Con la Tavola di tutte le Rubriche. Siena,
Bonetti, 1619. £3800
Folio, pp. [xii], 160, with woodcut and vignette to title and decorated
initials throughout; some spotting and light browning; contemporary
full limp vellum, some insigniWcant staining, with remains of the leather
ties; some worming to inner joints, with two worm-holes extending
through the Wrst and Wnal two leaves; not touching any text; extensive
early manuscript annotations, mostly marginal, but also to Wnal
endpaper; an attractive copy.
Second revised edition of the mercantile statutes of the city of Siena. These
statutes had a fourfold purpose: Wrst, to organise the election and appointment
of oYcials; secondly, to mediate in disputes and serve as a mercantile
court; thirdly, to organise the structure of diVerent guilds; and Wnally, to
organise business activity, taxation and politics in the city of Siena. In addition
to its obvious legal, Wnancial and economic interest for seventeenth
century Italian city state politics, the volume contains fascinating social and
historical information. The treatment of debtors, for example is explained
in great detail, as is inheritance and its fair division.
Biblioteca del Senato VII, p. 235; Goldsmiths’–Kress 477.1; Manzoni II, 20; not
in BM STC Italian; RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Harvard, the University of
Chicago, New York Public Library and the Library of Congress only.
City Law from the Bishop’s Library
297 [STATUTES – TRENTO.] Libro de Statuti et Ordini delli
Signori Sindici della MagniWca Communità, & Città di Trento. Con
l’aggionta dell Editto contro li danneggianti le Campagne, publicato
& conWrmato sotto l’Eminentiss. Cardinale Carlo Madruzzo
Vescono, & Prencipe di Trento. [Trento, 1640].
[bound with:] Nuovi Statuti, & Provisioni municipali, che riformano
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il tempo della Wera di Santo Michele, & regolano le cause de
concorsi de Creditori in qual si voglia evento, & emergenza,
d’osservasi nella Città di Trento, & sua Podestaria. Publicati, l’anno
MDCXL. Trento, Lorenzo Colino, 1640. £2200
Two parts in one volume, 4to, pp. [viii], 71, [blank]; [ii], 10; woodcut
initials, large city seal to end of part one, two heraldic vignettes to title
of second work; some browning and spotting throughout, marginal
dampstain to last signature of Wrst work and aVecting Wrst leaves of
second work; contemporary buV boards, spine lettered in manuscript,
boards somewhat dust-soiled and ink-stained; with contemporary
ownership inscription to title ‘ Card. Carlo Madruzzo V[escopo]’.
First edition of the revised city laws of the city of Trento, issued and renewed
under Cardinal Carlo Madruzzo in 1640. In the statutes all aspects
of city life are discussed and regulated. Of particular interest are the rules
regulating the trade fairs and markets, with regulations on merchandise,
speciWcally on food and drink. The second work deals more speciWcally with
the Wnancial aspects of the city laws, in particular as it applies to the trade
fair. SpeciWc regulations are made for money lending, debts, interest payments,
and bankruptcy and its consequences.
Provenance: From the library of the Trento bishop Cardinal Carlo Madruzzo
(died 1658), who was ultimately responsible for the renewed city
statutes issued here, with his manuscript ownership inscription to the title.
Biblioteca del Senato VIII, 1999, p. 168; Manzoni I, 495 *x; rare, not found in
RLIN or OCLC.