Details

Subjects:

Piacenza (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Notarial document (signature and signet, f. 6v-7r) dated 21 Mar. 1579 (in text, according to Old Style calendar; somewhat later title page gives date as 1580).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 8; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 26-28 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern pasteboards.
Origin: Written in Piacenza (Italy), 21 March 1580.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Carlo Morbio (Rosenthal).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.

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. 173 (Ms. Lea 126).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 581

Contributor:

Morbio, Carlo, former owner.

OCLC:

155966841