Details

Subjects:

Requesens family.
Law -- Italy -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Lawyers -- Italy -- Marsala -- History -- 17th century.
Real property -- Italy -- Sicily -- 17th century.
Real property.
Lawyers.
History.
Law.
Marsala (Italy) -- History.
Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 15th-18th centuries.
Italy -- Sicily.
Italy -- Marsala.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Petitions.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with passages in Italian, and Sicilian dialect.

Summary:

Miscellany of copies of documents, predominantly letters, dispatches, and petitions written to and by Antonio Requesens, prince of Pantelleria, during the years 1628-1631. Most items, written in Marsala or in the nearby areas, deal with a wide range of legal disputes and requests from prisoners (or legal functionaries, perhaps lawyers, acting on their behalf) for a favorable resolution of said dispute, time reduction, or, in certain cases, a pardon. The documents contained in the miscellany are arranged in a casual manner and in no chronological order. Latin, Italian, and Sicilian dialect are used interchangeably, with occasional linguistic contamination between the three within the same document.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from note pasted inside upper cover.
Foliation: Paper, 61; [1-61]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script, by multiple hands.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Arbalète 756 (Naples, 1593); and unidentified watermark containing the letters P and A and a clover leaf between them.
Binding: Contemporary boards. 1626 et 1627, Requesens ... 1628 et 1629, ac etiam ... 1629-1630 et anni ... 1630-1631, as well as other very faded writing in ink, some barely visible and readable, on upper cover. Some smudges and stains, possibly some water damage, especially on upper cover. Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart. Paper shows some evidence of worm damage, but with very little loss of text.
Origin: Probably written in Sicily after 1631 (f. 15v).
Forms part of: Villafiorita Ducal Records.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited in:

Separated 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. 227 (Ms. Lea 397, Nos. 54-62).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1574.

OCLC:

665171017

Access Restriction:

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