Details

Other Title:

Quaternus notarum Petri de Monastero, notarii, filii S. Odorici, notarius de civitate Austriae.

Subjects:

Friuli (Italy) -- History.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Italy.
Real property -- Italy.
Real property.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Four sets of protocols dealing with investitures, purchases, donations, and real estate transactions. Mostly a collection of various documents, with different notaries, dealing with finances. The name Ottoboni occurs frequently (for example, on f. 40v). There is a notarial signet topped with a cross (f. 1r). There are four notes laid in, which contain some names, but much of the ink has faded and two of the notes are torn.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from lower cover. Title page (f. 1r) has title Quaternus notarum Petri de Monastero, notarii, filii S. Odorici, notarius de civitate Austriae..
Collation: Paper, 115 leaves; 1⁴⁰, 2²⁸, 3³⁸, 4⁹; [1-115]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive hand.
Layout: Long lines of varying length; chancery octavo format.
Binding: Bound in a vellum document, dated 1385 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Friuli (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1397 (f. 1r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea.

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. 186 (Ms. Lea 194).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1246

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

244249776

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