Details

Subjects:

Inheritance and succession -- Early works to 1800.
Inheritance and succession.
Genoa (Italy) -- History -- 1528-1789.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Copies of the will of Domina Georgeta, daughter of Marco Centurioni and widow of Jeronimo Cattanei, and legal proceedings about the inheritance, involving primarily her grandson Silvester Cattanei and Isoltina, his brother Jeronimo's widow, dated 1548-1549, notarized by various officials of Genoa, with some earlier documents interspersed (Zacour-Hirsch).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
Incipit (1st document): In nomine Domini Amen. Cum nil sit certius morte nil vero incertius hora ipsius quae in animo cuius libet...
Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 46 + i (contemporary paper); [1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in several cancellaresca and notarial hands.
Binding: Modern paper boards.
Origin: Written in Genoa, 1536-1549 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Notarial signatures, but no signets, follow most of the documents.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini (Kraus' description) and Silvester Cattaneus (inscription, front flyleaf i recto).
Sold by H. P. Kraus (Cat. 189, no. 41), April 1958.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 21 (Ms. Latin 97).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 860

Contributor:

Cattaneus, Silvester, former owner.
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

225059698