Details

Subjects:

Real property -- Italy -- 15th century.
Real property.
Orvieto (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Deed, dated 29 Aug. 1481, at Castrum Sancti Laurentii, of the sale of land at Monte Alfini (elsewhere written Montalfino), near Orvieto, to Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (archbishop of Siena, later Pope Pius III), by Adam Luce Dominici. Elaborate first initial. See Ms. Coll. 742, Folder 52 and Folder 112, for other documents related to this property.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 22925).

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. 32-33 (Ms. Lea 447).

Contributor:

Pius III, Pope, approximately 1440-1503.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

612432901