Details

Subjects:

Piccolomini, Giacomo.
Piccolomini, Scipione.
Parent and child (Law) -- Italy.
Parent and child (Law).
Italy.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Notarized transcript, dated Jan. 7, 1547, of a document of legal emancipation, dated Jul. 10, 1542, of Giacomo and Scipione Piccolomini, sons of Antonio Maria d'Enea di Giacomo Todeschini Piccolomini of Siena. At the time, Giacomo was 9 years old, and Scipione an infant. Ruled in lead and faint ink. 4 notarial signatures.

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:

631723277