Details

Subjects:

Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Real property.
Italy.
Real property -- Italy -- 15th century.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Italian, with notarial signatures in Latin.

Summary:

Arbitration regarding the distribution of the Siena estate of Giovanni di Urbano Piccolomini del Testa among his five children: Bastiano, Bartolomeo, Gregorio Nastagio, and Mostiola. The Testa family were adopted into the Piccolomini family in the early 15th century. The three arbitrators were Andrea di Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini (nephew of Pope Pius II, brother of Pope Pius III), Luca di Salvi di Vieri, and Fortuno di Lorenzo.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, 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:

Piccolomini, Andrea di Nanni Todeschini.
Vieri, Luca di Salvi di.
Lorenzo, Fortuno di.
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

624618303