Details

Subjects:

Umidis, Jacomo di Pietro de.
Notaries -- Italy.
Notaries.
Italy.
Writing materials and instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Writing materials and instruments.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Appointment by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Jacomo di Pietro de Umidis of Siena as imperial notary. Contains notarial oath promising to write all public instruments on clean parchment, not paper or used parchment. Signature of Caspar Sligk (Kaspar Schlick), chancellor to Sigismund, on verso.

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).

Publications about:

Described and translated in Andrews, Avery D. "From the Piccolomini Papers." Library Chronicle 26, no. 1 (1960), p. 17-29.

Contributor:

Schlick, Kaspar, approximately 1396-1449.
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

495853670