Details

Other Title:

Documenti Ressano di S. Giorgio.

Subjects:

Pinerolo (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Contracts.
Notarial documents.
Receipts.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Consists of 48 notarized documents bound together in chronological order. Documents pertain to Cesare, Horatio and Giovanni Paolo Ressano of Pinerolo (Cesare Ressano's name taken from title page. Names of Horatio and Giovanni Paolo Ressano taken from Zacour-Hirsch). Includes contracts, receipts, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Later inscription below title: "Documenti Ressano di S. Giorgio" (also appears on spine). According to a description clipped from an Italian dealer's catalog (and now on file in the Library), this refers to Cesare Ressano di S. Giorgio.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 216 + i (modern paper); [1-216]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many hands.
Decoration: Some documents contain depictions in ink of notarial seals.
Binding: Modern half cloth. Some documents are badly stained. Many leaves are worn and frayed at the edges. Some oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Pinerolo, 1568 (f. 2r)-1632 (f. 243r).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1960.

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. 114 (Ms. Italian 107).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 349

Contributor:

Ressano, Cesare.
Ressano, Horatio.
Ressano, Giovanni Paolo.

OCLC:

155964457