Details

Subjects:

Weapons -- Law and legislation -- Italy -- Florence.
Criminal law -- Italy -- Florence.
Criminal law.
Weapons -- Law and legislation.
Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.
Italy -- Florence.

Form/Genre:

Notarial documents.
Ordinances.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Italian, with a few lines in Latin.

Biography/History:

Florentine magistrature composed of 8 members elected from among the members of the Gonfalone. Each member was in office for 2-4 months. Had jurisdiction over some aspects of criminal law and various matters related to the police. Existed both during the republican and grand-ducal periods.

Summary:

Document written by the notary Bonifazio Marinari in 1518 containing a copy of an ordinance of the Otto di guardia e balia concerning the regulation of the right to carry weapons in Florence. The edict makes a distinction between civilians and members of the militia, who had special privileges to bear weapons even in peacetime, although they still had to return their weapons in certain cases. The document, which bears the signature of the Marinari at the end, also has a wax seal on the second leaf.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (2), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 1, p. 19 (Ms. Lea 411).

Contributor:

Marinari, Bonifazio, scribe.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

351812046