[Copies of documents pertaining to the Ospedale della Misericordia in Lucca].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Busdraghi, Matteo, 14th century.

Busdraghi, Nicola, 14th century.

Busdraghi, Piero, 14th century.

Confraternities--Italy--Lucca.

Confraternities.

Lucca (Italy)--Religious life and customs.

Italy--Lucca.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1963.

Physical Description:

47 leaves : paper ; 315 x 220 (235 x 160) mm bound to 318 x 229 mm

Production:

Lucca, [after 1489]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

15th-century copies of documents dated 1336-1489 pertaining to the founding by brothers Matteo, Nicola, and Piero Busdraghi of the Ospedale della Misericordia, of the Confraternita della Santa Croce, attached to the church of San Nicola in Lucca, to serve the poor and sick, and the subsequent history of the Ospedale.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Incipit of first document: (f. 2r) Copia. Frater Guilelmus Dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopus Lucanus dilectis nobis in Christo filiis confratribus societatis ditte de Cruce in ecclesia et loco hospitalis misericordie de Luca positus intra portam Sancti Donati ...

Collation: Paper, 47; 1⁴⁴ 2²(+1); [1], 2-47; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 23 long lines.

Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand.

Binding: Thick, white rag boards with sewing visible at spine. Edges reddened from acid in boards.

Origin: Written in Lucca, Italy, after 1489 (formerly last date in manuscript now lost to damage, f. 47; extant last date is 1485, f. 40r).

On the last few folios, particularly f. 47, much of the text is either missing or difficult to make out due to the deterioration of the paper.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 223 (Ms. Lea 383).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 95

OCLC:

155962339