Details

Subjects:

Unmarried mothers -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Social conditions.
Unmarried mothers.
Italy -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with some Latin.

Summary:

Interrogation in the trial of Oratio Molinari, accused of having rendered pregnant Johanna Lombardina, daughter of Antonio Lombardini. The trial was held in the Brosinopiano district of Arcisate, in the Lombardy region of Italy.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 96; [i], 1-95; contemporary foliation in ink, beginning on f. 2 (index on f. 1). Each folio stamped F1.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with signatures and affadavits in various other hands.
Binding: Contemporary boards.
Origin: Written in the district of Como, 1740-1741.
Two additional documents (3 leaves) related to the case laid inside back cover.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1961.

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. 121 (Ms. Italian 142).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 383

Contributor:

Lombardina, Johanna.
Lombardini, Antonio.
Molinari, Oratio.

OCLC:

155966622