Details

Subjects:

Piccolomini, Giovanni.
Illegitimacy -- Italy.
Illegitimacy.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Grant of legitimation from Cardinal Giovanni d'Andrea di Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini, of another individual named Giovanni Piccolomini, who was an apostolic notary. As a result of this grant, the notary, who was the illegitimate son of a subdeacon and an unmarried woman (soluta), was eligible for any ecclesiastical prebend.

Notes:

This oversize item is stored in a map drawer.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, and Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 6067).

Cited in:

From collection 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. 163 (Ms. Lea 71).

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

489473982