Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Curia Romana.
Civil law -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.
Doctor of laws degree -- History.
Law -- Study and teaching -- Italy -- Rome -- History.
Law -- Study and teaching.
History.
Doctor of laws degree.
Civil law.
Italy -- Rome.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diplomas.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Formal document recording the admission of Geronimo Burgio as doctor of law, specializing in civil and canon law, granted by the Collegium Illustrissimorum et Reverendorum Prothonotariorum of Rome (faculty of law affiliated with the Curia Romana) in 1661. According to the document, written in the first person by Ludovicus Antonius Manfronius, dean of the Collegium, Burgio received his doctorate after completing extensive training and passing a rigorous examination before a committee of five scholars (Camillo Ghino, Aloysio de' Aquino, Galeatio Marescotto, Octavio de Mari, and Marcello Duratio). As a doctor of law, Geronimo Burgio also had the prerogative to teach both civil and canon law, and the authority to practice law in the whole city of Rome. The document bears the signature of the dean, as well as that of another member of the Collegium (f.4r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Vellum, 4; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 19 long lines; lines and text block ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, by a single hand.
Decoration: Decorated initial (f.1r) and names in gold ink.
Binding: Contemporary vellum over cardboard with gilt tooling and armorial stamp, perhaps of the Collegium Illustrissimorum et Reverendorum Prothonotariorum, on both covers; remnants of four pairs of ribbon ties.
Wormholes going through some of the leaves and the inside cover.
Origin: Probably written in Rome in 1661.
Forms part of: Villafiorita Ducal Records.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kurt L. Schwarz (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

Cited in:

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. 226 (Ms. Lea 397, N. 4).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1573

Contributor:

Burgio, Geronimo, addressee.

OCLC:

664353884