Franklin

[Legal records].

Author/Creator:
Bagnano family.
Publication:
[Florence], 1493-1604.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
88 leaves : parchment ; 285 x 210 (240-250 x 180) mm bound to 288 x 213 mm
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Subjects:
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Italy.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Deeds.
Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Wills.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin, with some Italian.
Summary:
A series of legal records of the Bagnano family, dated from 1493 to 1604. There is a table of contents on the inside of the upper and lower covers, listing the years, page numbers, and brief descriptions of the records in Italian. A collection of legal records, mostly consisting of wills, contracts, deeds, and inheritances. Some of the records include disagreements over inheritance, and others deal with claims of various monasteries in Florence. The family is sometimes referred to as Albagnano. Many of the records are notarized and contain notarial signets. Contains some marginal notes in a near-contemporary hand.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 88; 1-4¹⁰ 5-10⁸; 1-11, [i], 12-84, [iii]; 1-11, [i], 84, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a variety of cursive and secretarial hands.
Decoration: Contains some initials with foliate decoration (example, f. 14v); manicules in margins throughout.
Binding: Parchment.
Origin: Written in Florence (f. 1r), 1493-1604.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Prince Piero Ginor Conti (bookplate, inside lower cover).
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 Catalogue 36 (1970), no. 1, p. 23 (Ms. Lea 421).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1256
Contributor:
Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939, former owner.
OCLC:
246617841