Emperor Sigismund appointment, 1432.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1368-1437.

Contributor:

Schlick, Kaspar, approximately 1396-1449.

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

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

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Umidis, Jacomo di Pietro de.

Notaries--Italy.

Notaries.

Italy.

Writing materials and instruments--Early works to 1800.

Writing materials and instruments.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, and Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 6067).

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment

Contained In:

Piccolomini Family Papers. Folder 31

Place of Publication:

1432.

Language Note:

In Latin.

Summary:

Appointment by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Jacomo di Pietro de Umidis of Siena as imperial notary. Contains notarial oath promising to write all public instruments on clean parchment, not paper or used parchment. Signature of Caspar Sligk (Kaspar Schlick), chancellor to Sigismund, on verso.

Cited in:

From collection 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. 163 (Ms. Lea 71).

Publications about:

Described and translated in Andrews, Avery D. "From the Piccolomini Papers." Library Chronicle 26, no. 1 (1960), p. 17-29.

OCLC:

495853670