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[Collection of notarial documents].

Publication:
[Siena], 1499-1585.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
121 leaves : parchment ; 251 x 151 mm bound to 239 x 170 mm
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Subjects:
Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Commerce.
Italy -- Commerce.
Italy.
Siena (Italy) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Financial records.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Written in Latin with a small amount of Italian (f. 91r-94v).
Summary:
A collection of notarial imbreviature mostly concerned with officializing business transactions and other matters of property exchange, in particular those of Bartholomew Boninsigne de Boninsignis. Each item ends with a notarial signet, with the later signets being stamped rather than drawn. The imbreviature are mostly from the 16th century, although there are a few late additions from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: In nomine domini amen. Anno ab ipsius domini salutifera ... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... Tomaso Buonin regni Domenicano (f. 94v).
Foliation: Parchment, ii + 119; 1-86, [87-119]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in multiple hands.
Decoration: Large pen-and-ink initials at the beginning of some imbreviature (for example, f. 1r); notarial signets throughout.
Binding: Contemporary full leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped, with brass bosses and clasps (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Siena, 1499-1585.
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan, Italy), 1959.
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. 32 (Ms. Latin 137).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1234.
OCLC:
234239206
Access Restriction:
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