[Collection of notarial documents].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

• Italian
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Commerce--Early works to 1800.
• Commerce.
• Italy--Commerce.
• Italy.
• Siena (Italy)--History.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• financial records
• notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan, Italy), 1959.

Physical Description:

121 leaves : parchment ; 251 x 151 mm bound to 239 x 170 mm

Place of Publication:

[Siena], 1499-1585.

Language Note:

Written in Latin with a small amount of Italian (f. 91r-94v).

Summary:

A collection of notarial imbreviature mostly concerned with officializing business transactions and other matters of property exchange, in particular those of Bartholomew Boninsigne de Boninsignis. Each item ends with a notarial signet, with the later signets being stamped rather than drawn. The imbreviature are mostly from the 16th century, although there are a few late additions from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Incipit: In nomine domini amen. Anno ab ipsius domini salutifera ... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... Tomaso Buonin regni Domenicano (f. 94v).
• Foliation: Parchment, ii + 119; 1-86, [87-119]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Script: Written in multiple hands.
• Decoration: Large pen-and-ink initials at the beginning of some imbreviature (for example, f. 1r); notarial signets throughout.
• Binding: Contemporary full leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped, with brass bosses and clasps (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Origin: Written in Siena, 1499-1585.

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. 32 (Ms. Latin 137).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1234.

OCLC:

234239206

Access Restriction:

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