Details

Subjects:

Di Leone, Francesco.
Di Leone, Giovanni.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Copy of notarial document contesting the rights to the property of Francesco and Giovanni (or Johannes) di Leone of Ferrara(?) in the Venetian province of Rovigo, made on behalf of the republic of Venice by Antonius Ferro. The first half of the document consists of a review of six earlier documents (instrumenta) produced in relation to the dispute, the earliest being from 1399. The latest date in the document overall is 1485.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 9 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁰ (-10); [1-9]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 23-27 long lines, with each page having a margin on the left side and none on the right side.
Script: Written in an italic script.
Binding: 20th-century paper, sewn.
Origin: Written in Lombardy (Zacour-Hirsch) after 1485 (f. 6r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy), 1962.

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. 41 (Ms. Latin 176).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1179

OCLC:

228417772