[Notarial documents].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ressani family.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ressano, Giovanni.

Ressano, Catterina.

Real property--Italy--16th century.

Real property.

Real property--Italy--17th century.

Pinerolo (Italy)--History.

Pinerolo (Italy).

Italy.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Physical Description:

118 leaves : paper ; 252-270 x 160-180 mm bound to 275 x 185 mm

Place of Publication:

[Pinerolo], 1559-1609.

Language Note:

Italian, with some Latin.

Biography/History:

A noble family of merchants in Pinerolo, Italy. Referred to as Ressani di Fenile.

Summary:

Contains 25 documents of varying sizes, mostly documenting purchases and sales. Some of the frequently mentioned names include Josepho Martelo, Giovanni Ressano, and Michaele de Martinis. One of the purchases is from Catterina, widow of Baldassare Ressani. Includes the testimony of Paula Ballegna (f. 68r-74r), the wife of Alessandro Ballegna. Another document involves an iron foundry (f. 104r-108v). Many of the documents are notarized. The documents are arranged in order of date.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, 118; [1-118]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a variety of cursive scripts by multiple hands.

Binding: Modern half-cloth (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Pinerolo (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1559 (f. 2r) to 1609 (f. 118r).

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. 27 (Ms. Lea 604).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1258

OCLC:

257736815