The Bolognese 1317-1348 List of Prices for Manuscripts

The Bolognese statutes of 1317 (repeated in the statutes of 1347) gave a list of prices that the booksellers should charge for manuscripts.  This list, published by Frank Soetermeer, Utrumque ius in peciis (see full citation below) 314-317, reproduces a list found in Graz, Universitätsbibliothek 363, fol. 1rv.  The list should be read as follows:

Lectura domini Hostiensis sunt clvi. quaterni taxati, l. solidi bononenses.

The Lectura of Hostiensis has 156 taxed quaterni, which total 50 Bolognese Solidi.

Each of the quaterni was divided into peciae.

Destrez, Jean.  La pecia dans les manuscrits universitaires du XIIIe et du XIVe siècle.  Paris:   Editions J. Vautrain, 1935.  36 Plates

H. Graham Pollard, "The Pecia System in the Medieval Universities," Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker, ed. M. B. Parkes (London: Scolar, 1978) 145-161.

Soetermeer, Frank Pieter Willem. "La 'taxatio peciarum et quaternorum' de l'Université de Bologne," Estudis de dret Romà i d'historia del dret comparat en homenatge a Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals pel su centenari, Edited by J. Sobrequés-M.J. Peláez  (Annals of the Archive of "Ferran Valls i Taberner's Library" 6;  Barcelona:  1989)   175-192. 

Soetermeer, Frank Pieter Willem. De Pecia in juridische Handschriften. Utrecht: Elinkwijk, 1990.

Soetermeer, Frank Pieter Willem. Utrumque ius in peciis: Aspetti della produzione libraria a Bologna fra due e trecento. Orbis academicus: Saggi e documenti di storia delle università, 8. Milano: Giuffrè Editore, 1997.