Details

Subjects:

Papal States -- History.
Umbria (Italy).
Forlì (Italy).

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Codices.
Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Seals (artifacts)
Wills.

Language:

Latin, except for one document in Italian.

Summary:

Collection of documents relating to the commune of Aspra and Carbi and the commune of Forlì, all papal states, concerning subjects such as local regulations, meat prices, salt taxes, wills, and safety and defense.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 60 + i (modern paper); [1-15, [i], 16-41, [i], 42-60; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, mostly between 1500 and 1528, but with earlier and later documents added at the time of binding.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher (London), 1960.

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. 33 (Ms. Latin 144).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 880

OCLC:

155922980