STATUTES OF BOLOGNA relating to the wine trade, in Italian, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Bologna, first half of the 15th century] 275 x 200mm. 12 leaves (f.12 blank), COMPLETE: 1 1 2 , single columns of 35-41 lines, frame-ruled in pale brown ink, justification 205 x 150mm, written in dark brown ink in a semi-gothic hand, rubrics in light brown ink, chapter numbers in red (upper outer corners of ff.1-9 waterstained with some fading of text, the fore-edges of ff.1-2 and the upper outer corners of ff.1-8 patched with blank vellum losing a few word of text on f. 1v). Modern wine-coloured velvet over pasteboard, maroon morocco slipcase. The statutes included in this manuscript are those regulating the wine trade (and its subsidiary, the vinegar trade) in Bologna and its territory in the 15th century. The 48 chapters cover topics such as the transport of wine between the countryside and the city and the payment of taxes and duties on this commerce, and they regulate the retail sale of wine ('vendere vino a menudo') in considerable detail. Local differences in the application of the statutes are set forth, with reference to the provision, among others, that these statutes should not contradict the agreement reached in 1416 regarding the wine trade in the localities of Cento and Pieve di Cento. It is likely that the present manuscript dates from a period not long after this. Although references to the wine trade appear frequently in collections of statutes and economic regulations for Bologna from the 14th century on, the present manuscript is a very early example of a collection dedicated specifically to this subject. Since official compilations of the law at this time were in Latin, it is probable that the present codex represents a set of extracts, and a translation, prepared for the use of the guild of 'brentatori' -- the name comes from 'brenta', the name of the vessel used both to transport wine and as a standard measure. The Italian Biblioteca del Senato, Catalogo della raccolta di statuti (Rome 1943- ) I, pp.156-57, lists only a 17th-century manuscript of Statuti e capitoli dell'honoranda Compagnia de' Brentatori of Bologna.
STATUTES OF BOLOGNA relating to the wine trade, in Italian, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Bologna, first half of the 15th century] 275 x 200mm. 12 leaves (f.12 blank), COMPLETE: 1 1 2 , single columns of 35-41 lines, frame-ruled in pale brown ink, justification 205 x 150mm, written in dark brown ink in a semi-gothic hand, rubrics in light brown ink, chapter numbers in red (upper outer corners of ff.1-9 waterstained with some fading of text, the fore-edges of ff.1-2 and the upper outer corners of ff.1-8 patched with blank vellum losing a few word of text on f. 1v). Modern wine-coloured velvet over pasteboard, maroon morocco slipcase. The statutes included in this manuscript are those regulating the wine trade (and its subsidiary, the vinegar trade) in Bologna and its territory in the 15th century. The 48 chapters cover topics such as the transport of wine between the countryside and the city and the payment of taxes and duties on this commerce, and they regulate the retail sale of wine ('vendere vino a menudo') in considerable detail. Local differences in the application of the statutes are set forth, with reference to the provision, among others, that these statutes should not contradict the agreement reached in 1416 regarding the wine trade in the localities of Cento and Pieve di Cento. It is likely that the present manuscript dates from a period not long after this. Although references to the wine trade appear frequently in collections of statutes and economic regulations for Bologna from the 14th century on, the present manuscript is a very early example of a collection dedicated specifically to this subject. Since official compilations of the law at this time were in Latin, it is probable that the present codex represents a set of extracts, and a translation, prepared for the use of the guild of 'brentatori' -- the name comes from 'brenta', the name of the vessel used both to transport wine and as a standard measure. The Italian Biblioteca del Senato, Catalogo della raccolta di statuti (Rome 1943- ) I, pp.156-57, lists only a 17th-century manuscript of Statuti e capitoli dell'honoranda Compagnia de' Brentatori of Bologna.
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