Details

Subjects:

Venice (Italy) -- Economic conditions -- To 1797.

Form/Genre:

Financial records.
Notarial documents.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Copies of notarial instruments, including accounts and notarial signets, concerning the Cavalli family of Venice, covering the years 1597 to 1613.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. Spine title: Cavalli.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 41 + iii (modern paper); 1-41; later foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 36 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a cursive script largely by a single hand.
Decoration: Notarial signets (f. 2r, 2v, 4r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 7r, 7v, 8v, 10v, 12r, 21r, 23r, 38v, 40r, 40v, and 41v).
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Venice (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1597 (f. 1r) to 1613 (f. 41r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Zacour-Hirsch).
Accessioned, 1958.

Cited in:

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. 104 (Ms. Italian 58).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 299

Contributor:

Morbio, Carlo, former owner.

OCLC:

155964305