[Will of Matteo Amorini, banker, of Bologna, Italy].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amorini, Matteo, -1573, creator.

Contributor:

Ferroni, Clemente, -1642, printer.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Wills--Italy--Bologna--16th century--Early works to 1800.

Wills.

Bankers--Italy--Bologna--16th century--Early works to 1800.

Bankers.

Genre:

Annotations.

Physical Description:

30, [2] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Text begins: In Christi nomine. Amen. Anno natiuitatis eiusdem 1568. Indictione vndecima, die verò Mercurij, & octaua mensis Decembris, tempore Pontificatus Santcissimi in Christo Patris, & Domini Nostri Domini Pij diuina prouidentia Papæ Quinti. Mag. Dminus [sic] Matthæus quondam Domini Antonij de Amorinis ciuis, & campsor, ac nobilis Bononiæ, Capellæ Sancti Antonini de Potta noua, sanus, omnipotentis Dei gratia, mente, sensu, & intellectu, licet aliqualiter podagra, & corpore languens, considerans omnibus horis mortem esse impendentem, ac euitari non posse, nec quempiam, quamuis adolescentem, sibi vitam vsque ad vesperum polliceri valere, corporeque languoribus obsesso illam magis expectandam, & cernendam, sua igitur nouissima meditans, decreuit tam animæ, quam bonorum suorum dispositionem ita componere ...

Fingerprint:

rous ams, l-ta prdo (3) 1628 (A)

Place of Publication:

Bononiae : Apud Clementem Ferronium, 1628.

Notes:

Title devised by cataloger

"Matteo Amorini’s will was made out in November 1568 ..., he died in November 1573, and his sons paid the legacy in 1574"--N. Terpstra, Cultures of charity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013), page 325, note 90.

Imprint from colophon on leaf A15v

Signatures: A¹⁶ (leaf A16 blank).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy heavily annotated by a contemporary hand; partially illegible early manuscript inscription ("[...] I. Mo[...] [...] G[...] [...] [...] Amorini[?]") on verso of last leaf.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Patrick Olson Rare Books.

Kislak Center copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Kislak Center copy: "Without a binding but securely sewn through the fold, retaining deckle edges ... The first bifolium split nearly halfway up the fold; edges tattered and torn, never affecting the text; scattered light dampstaining and soiling."--Bookseller's description.

Cited in:

Universal short title catalogue 4004849

OCLC:

1519355922