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Mercantia notarial document, 1439.

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Format:
Manuscript
Author/Creator:
Siena (Italy). Mercantia.
Contributor:
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Language:
Latin
Subjects (All):
Piccolomini, Tommaso d'Enea.
Sansedoniis, Guccia de.
Civil law--Italy.
Civil law.
Italy.
Siena (Italy)--History--15th century.
Siena (Italy).
Genre:
legal documents
notarial documents
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 34
Place of Publication:
1439.
Language Note:
In Latin.
Summary:
Notarial document from a lawsuit in the Mercantia (court of the Merchants' Guild), concerning Guccia, daughter of Blasius Rubertus and wife of Nanis (?) Gori de Sansedoniis, in which Tommaso d'Enea Piccolomini acted as one of four arbitrators of the terzerio (municipal district) of San Martino in Siena. Also lists the names of four arbitrators each for the terzerio of the city (terzerio civitatis) and the terzerio of Camillie (Kamollie).
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).
OCLC:
607921445

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