Details

Subjects:

Benedictines.
Benedictine nuns.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Economic aspects.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
History.
Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 15th-18th centuries -- Economic aspects.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Inventories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with some Latin.

Summary:

Inventory of goods pertaining to the Benedictine convent of Santa Croce in Saponara (Kingdom of Sicily).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from heading (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, i (paper) + 20 + i (paper); 1-20, contemporary or slightly later foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with later additions in other hands. Also includes various later marginal notes.
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped calf. Cover worn and cracked. Damage to inside covers and endleaves, possibly from worms. Last quire loose. Some leaves badly stained. Ink faded on some leaves.
Origin: Written in Italy, 1654 (f. 1r), with later additions.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Rizzi, 1959.

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), pp. 107-108 (Ms. Italian 74).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 316

OCLC:

155964361