Details

Subjects:

Piccolomini family.
Real property.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.
Siena (Italy) -- Economic conditions.
Real property -- Italy -- 15th century.
Real property -- Italy -- 16th century.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Copies of 23 deeds of the sale of land near Siena on behalf of then Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini by his procurators. Formerly part of a larger manuscript. The land is sold by various families and persons to the various procurators representing Francesco Piccolomini, including Francisco Nanni and Jacopo Piccolomini. Several of the deeds were notarized by Leonardus olim Nannius. Contains four notarial signets. The deeds are numbered 1-23 in a contemporary hand.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 36 + iii (modern paper); 532-567; near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in several secretarial cursive hands.
Binding: Bound in 19th-century half russia with half calf borders.
Origin: Written in Siena (Zacour-Hirsch), between 1492 and 1502.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 9691.
Sold by Thomas Thorpe, 1836.
Sold by Thomas (?), 1968.

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), Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle, vol. 36, no. 1 (1970) p. 35 (Ms. Lea 454).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1249

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

244570939