Details

Subjects:

Alliata, Marianna.
Alliata, Domenico.
Naselli, Baldassare.
Naselli, Luigi.
Dowry -- Italy.
Marriage law -- Italy.
Marriage law.
Real property.
Marriage.
Dowry.
Italy.
Marriage -- Italy -- Sicily.
Real property -- Italy -- Sicily -- 18th century.
Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 15th-18th centuries.
Italy -- Sicily.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian, with a few passages in Latin.

Summary:

Copy of the prenuptial agreement (capitoli matrimoniali) entered into by Marianna Alliata, daughter of Domenico Alliata, prince of Villafranca and duke of Saponara, and Baldassare Naselli e Morso, prince of Poggioreale and son of Luigi Naselli, prince of Aragon, before their wedding in August, 1763. Because both parties were the heirs of substantial estates, including large portions of land and real property, as well as titles of nobility and privileges, the two families meticulously drafted the document to regulate matters preceding the wedding (such as Marianna's rich dowry, whose yearly installments followed a strict schedule and a set of compensatory measures should the bride's father fail to comply) and every possible outcome of the union itself (including separation, death of either spouse, offspring etc.). The document also contains the names of the numerous witnesses who were present when the agreement was made public (f. 37v-38r), as well as a brief passage, written in Latin (f. 38r-39v), in which the notary Carlo Filippone, guarantees the authenticity of the information provided.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, v (paper) + 39 + iv (paper); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in one column of 21-26 lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with some contemporary notes and marginalia in a second hand.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing 3 flowers and a crown.
Binding: Contemporary leather with gilt stamped borders and center floral ornament on both covers; gilt stamped spine; gilt edges; remnants of two pairs of ribbon ties.
Origin: Probably written in Sicily in 1763 (f. 1r).
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. 226-227 (Ms. Lea 397, Nos. 30-53).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1579.

Contributor:

Filippone, Carlo.

OCLC:

669789728

Access Restriction:

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