Filza XXIX: Scritture Sangalletti seg[nat]a: F.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Catholic Church. Pope (1566-1572 : Pius V)

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.

Ferdinando.

Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464.

Medici, Cosimo de'.

Sangalletti, Guglielmo.

Guidacci, Tommaso.

Guidacci, Francesco.

Arrigucci, Andrea.

Antinori, Filippo.

Alamanni, Andrea.

Sforza, Giovanni.

Medici family.

Sangalletti family.

Sacro militare ordine di Santo Stefano papa e martire.

Camaldolese--Italy.

Camaldolese.

Pius V, Pope, 1504-1572.

Pius.

Military religious orders--Italy--Florence.

Military religious orders.

Inquisition--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Inquisition.

Trials (Attempted murder)--Italy.

Trials (Attempted murder).

Textile industry--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Textile industry.

Accounting--Italy--16th century.

Accounting.

Inheritance and succession--Italy.

Inheritance and succession.

Banks and banking.

Italy.

Civil law--Italy.

Civil law.

Banks and banking--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.

Commercial law--Italy.

Commercial law.

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

Codices.

Accounts.

Credit records.

Legal documents.

Notarial documents.

Contracts.

Bulls (papal records)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Physical Description:

473 leaves : paper ; various sizes bound to 318 x 227 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], 1550-1597.

Language Note:

Italian and Latin.

Summary:

Miscellany of approximately 200 (largely original, but with some copies) legal and notarial documents, trial proceedings, historical essays, accounts, and a papal bull, covering the years 1550-1597, concerning the affairs of various members of Florentine families, including the Sangalletti, the Medici, the Arrigucci, the Guidacci, and the Sforza. The miscellany, referred to as filza, contains both documents in Italian and Latin in equal measure, with Latin used for most of the notarial or legal documents, and Italian preferred for the less formal ones, including narrations of trials, accounts, and credit records. The legal and notarial documents concern a diverse range of financial matters and controversies about a large number of individuals, mostly Florentine aristocrats. Among the areas touched on are inheritance law (concerning dowries and estates, as well as debts and credits left unpaid when an individual died unexpectedly); civil law (for a multitude of trials, mostly concerning unpaid debts between merchants, and numerous irregularities occurring within the banking operations of the Medici bank and Florentine businessmen); and business law (mostly for disputes between partners, especially textile merchants). Many documents present wax seals (examples can be found on f. 98v, 106r, and f. 110v) as well as notarial signets or stamps. Among the documents of the filza that do not fall within the aforementioned categories, is a copy of a papal bull, issued by Pius V in 1571 granting special privileges to the military religious order of Santo Stefano. Throughout the filza, there are also numerous references to various episodes and incidents that involved the Florentine Camaldolese, for whom Guglielmo di Francesco Sangalletti was a treasurer. The last two documents of the miscellany, however, appear significantly different from the rest, and are perhaps a later addition. The first document of the two is a copy of the proceeding of the Italian Inquisition against Guglielmo di Francesco Sangalletti, who had been found guilty of the attempted murder of Valerio Cenci, a Roman gentleman he shot and stabbed, and whose punishment included the spoglio degli abiti, or defrocking. The second document is the confession of a gentleman, Giovanni Sforza, written in his own hand before his execution, which took place in 1597 in Rome. According to the confession, it appears that Sforza was suspected of being involved in some capacity in the attack against Valerio Cenci: Sforza, however, denied having had any contact with Guglielmo di Francesco Sangalletti. Nevertheless, one of the purposes of his written confession was, by his own admission, to unload his conscience and take away the blame from people he had previously accused, since he had already been sentenced to the death penalty. The document is also notarized and bears a wax seal.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, 473; [i], 3-281, [282-382, 383-393 (contemporary foliation 1-9, x-xi), 394-443, 444-453 (contemporary foliation 1-9, x), 454-474], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.

Decoration: Pointing hand in ink (f. 20r, and f. 26v); numerous notarial stamps (for example on f. 98v, f. 110v, f. 124v, f. 127r, and f. 131r); S M A G A signet (f. 129r); SOLI DIO signet (f. 133v); and very small genealogical table in ink for Piero Grifi(?) (f. 245v).

Binding: 18th-century boards (Zacour-Hirsch); Filza XXIX, Filza 2 Sangalletti and no.312 on a label on spine. Upper cover and lower cover are tied with leather strings.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1550 (f. 3r) and 1597 (f. 522v).

Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (4), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 1, p. 16 (Ms. Lea 533).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1541

OCLC:

391737319