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Indictio cu[r]rens, 1490.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 591 Folder 43
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Notaries--Italy.
- Notaries.
- Chronology.
- Italy.
- Chronology--Italy.
- Genre:
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 7 December 2016, lot 22.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 218 x 150 mm
- Contained In:
- Manuscript Fragment Collection. Folder 43
- Place of Publication:
- 1490.
- Language Note:
- In Latin.
- Summary:
- Circular diagram written in Italy in 1490 aligning the years 1490-1504 with the indictio, a fifteen-year cycle used by medieval notaries to date documents until the end of the 16th century. A faded paragraph above the diagram and a clearer one below, written in humanist cursive script, explain its use and conclude with a note that the indictio is particularly familiar among notaries. The title of the diagram and the year 1490 in roman numerals are written in the the bars of a cross in the center of the diagram.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- Publications about:
- Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 41, 252-53 (cat. 75).
- OCLC:
- 1020055699
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