Details

Subjects:

Italy -- Commerce.
Italy.
Commerce.
Piacenza (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A collection of 16 notarial documents dealing with property and political matters, including real estate, wills, and elections, for the city of Piacenza, Italy. The documents, originally separate, are several different sizes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, v (modern paper) + 68 + v (modern paper); 1⁵(+1, 2, 3), 2³(+3), 3⁸, 4², 5-7⁴, 8⁶, 9-11⁴, 12⁶, 13², 14⁴, 15², 16⁶; [1-68]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in multiple hands.
Binding: Modern boards with modern paper interleaved between documents.
Origin: Written in Piacenza, Italy, 1457-1546.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Hans Peter Kraus (New York), 1960.

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. 33-34 (Ms. Latin 145).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1237

OCLC:

234381325

Web link:

Collation model