Details

Subjects:

Monselice (Italy) -- Economic conditions -- Early works to 1800.
Monselice (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.
Monselice (Italy) -- History -- 17th century.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Deeds.
Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin and Italian.

Summary:

A collection of copies of deeds to territory in Moncelese or Catastico within the Venetian territories, dated from 1508 to 1631 and accompanied by various notarial signatures and signets. Preceded by a table of contents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 87 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1, 1-83, [84]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.
Binding: 17th-century morocco, gilt stamped.
Origin: Written in Venice (Zacour-Hirsch), from 1598 (f. 1r) to 1631 (f. 82v).
The first copy in the collection is dated 1598, but the collection does not progress in chronological order, ranging back to 1508.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.

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. 24 (Ms. Latin 109).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 868

Contributor:

Morbio, Carlo, former owner.

OCLC:

155918952