Details

Subjects:

Real property -- Spain.
Real property.
Spain.
Catalonia (Spain) -- Economic conditions.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Notarial documents.
Ledgers (account books)
Sale records.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Ledger book of notarial entries about sales, between the years 1351 and 1352, from Bernardo Canal of Ripas, Spain. Most entries feature records of sale, possibly about property. Many of the entries have been crossed out, but are still legible. One of the notes contains annotations and some arithmetical notes, and is dated 1533 in a later hand. The other note contains two notarial statements in a contemporary hand.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from upper cover.
Collation: Paper, 81; [1-81]; 1²⁴ 2¹⁶ 3⁸ 4⁴ 5⁸ 6⁴ 7⁵ 8³ 9⁹; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Layout: Quarto format.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Catalonia, from 1351 (upper cover) to 1352 (f. 81v).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 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. 34 (Ms. Latin 148).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1268

OCLC:

276292367

Web link:

Collation model