Readers may be interested in the following announcement, from the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog:
Our 15th-century manuscript of the statutes of Montebuono, Italy, is now available in a full-color facsimile edition, along with a full transcription and three scholarly studies. Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2011) is available for purchase from the publisher's website.
It includes an introductory essay by Mario Ascheri, the leading scholar
of Italian statuti, as well as a history of medieval Montebuono by
Tersilio Leggio, and a detailed study of the Montebuono statutes by
legal historian Sandro Notari. In addition, Alda Spotti of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma provided a transcript of the Latin manuscript.
Read on
here.
