Details

Subjects:

Innocent VIII, Pope, 1432-1492.
Ciacci family.
Catholic Church -- Italy -- Tuscany -- History.
Catholic Church.
History.
Tuscany (Italy) -- Church history.
Tuscany (Italy) -- Genealogy.
Italy -- Tuscany.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin, with notes on original cover in Italian.

Summary:

Official document regarding the distribution of funds to churches around Volterra, in Tuscany, with notary's signature at the bottom. Includes specific mentions of Pope Innocent VIII, as well as men named Alexander, Jacob, and Antonio (probably Ciacco). Notarized by Michael de Gheraduccis de Vueterris. Document was previously stored in a roll, but was folded and sewn into a binding in the 17th century. This binding was later flattened and sewn into another binding. The upper cover of the original binding displays a description of the contents of the manuscript; inside the upper cover there is a partial family tree of the Ciacchi family in the 13th-15th centuries; inside the lower cover are notes on the actions of the Ciacchi family, specifically as regards the distribution of money to the rectors of local churches for masses to be celebrated.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from original cover.
Script: Written in a semigothic cursive; notes on original binding in a 17th-century cursive.
Watermark: F.F. MEONI on pastedowns for quarter leather binding.
Decoration: Sketch of a feather upper left recto of parchment leaf, notary symbol depicting two mountains and a cross at bottom of document.
Binding: 17th-century parchment in half morocco (Zacour-Hirsch), rebound quarter leather with gold-tooled floral design on spine and marbled boards.
Origin: Written in Volterra, Italy, in 1490.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 11 (Ms. Latin 225).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1116

OCLC:

191543987