Details

Subjects:

Ferrara (Italy) -- History -- Sources.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Bound collection of original and copied documents from Ferrara, incomplete at the beginning. The first five folios are notarized copies from the year 1637; followed by three earlier documents (1589, 1518, 1506); chronologically consecutive copies, 1626-1668, and a name index (f. 88r-92r). Several documents are marked with notarial signets, either drawn or stamped.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment and paper, 99; [ii], 1-8, [i], 9-65, [i], 66-79, [80-95]; near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Earlier foliation in ink, upper right recto, with many numbers crossed out or partially trimmed away.
Script: Written in a cursive script by various hands.
Binding: 17th-century paper boards.
Origin: Written in Ferrara, from 1506 (f. 9r) to 1668 (f. 77r).
Section of parchment leaves, f. 1-11, are nearly detached; folios 66-67 are completely detached.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 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. 155 (Ms. Lea 34).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 498

OCLC:

155965447