Details

Subjects:

Piccolomini, Baptista di.
Piccolomini, Vanna di.
Piccolomini, Minus Caffinus.
Piccolomini, Antonius de.
Piccolomini, Bartalus de.
Guardian and ward -- Italy -- Siena.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Guardian and ward.
Italy.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 14th century.
Italy -- Siena.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Charter dated Oct. 26, 1349, documenting the assumption of the guardianship of Baptista (or Battista) and Vanna di Piccolomini by Nado de Tolomeo (Naddus de Tolomais) and Johannes Caffini, perhaps from Antoninus and Bartalus de Piccolomini, all citizens of Siena. Baptista and Vanna, a brother and sister, were children of Minus Caffinus de Piccolomini and are described as wards (pupilli).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 20709).

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), Supplement A (2). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 30-32 (Ms. Lea 446).

Contributor:

Caffini, Johannes.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

560691048