[Processi contra il vescovo di Valva del 1500] ... [etc.].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Naples (Kingdom). Sacro regio consiglio.

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Real property--Italy--15th century.

Real property.

Fiefs.

Italy.

Fiefs--Italy.

Naples (Italy)--History--To 1503.

Naples (Italy).

Naples (Italy)--Economic conditions.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

petitions

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 5450

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover with the mottos La vertue est la seule noblesse and Auspicium melioris aevi).

Physical Description:

80 leaves : paper ; 284-295 x 210 mm bound to 300 x 220 mm

Place of Publication:

[Naples], 1499-1500.

Language Note:

Latin, with some Italian.

Biography/History:

Supreme judicial body of Naples.

Summary:

Includes a dispute over the land of the Santa Maria de Lecto abbey, overseen by Carolus de Rogeriis of Salerno, representing King Ferdinand, and his actorum magister Maximus Ruta. Consists of twelve parts, covering the entire proceedings from June 30 to October 15, 1500. Also includes a supplication for the reintroduction of fiefs, under supervision of Joannes Christophorus de Transmundi. The second work is separately paged in a contemporary hand. Several of the documents throughout both sections contain notarial signets, wax seals, and signatures.

Contents:

1. f. 1r-33v: Originalis processus cause approximo vertentis... inter magnificum Peritheum de Lavitiis / Consilio Regio.

2. f. 36v-80v: Supplicatio pro Angelillo Thomasii Pranti et Alife (?) Processus de reintregratione feudorum / Joannes Christophorus de Transmundi.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from spine.

Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 80 + ii (modern paper); 1-33, [34-36], 2-21 (=37-56), 40 (=57), 22-28 (=58-64), [65-80]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a variety of secretary and cursive hands.

Binding: Modern boards with vellum spine (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Naples (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1499 (f. 41v) to 1500 (f. 76v).

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), Supplement B, The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 8-9 (Ms. Latin 270).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1260

OCLC:

257620164