Details

Subjects:

Civil law -- Italy.
Civil law.
Marriage.
Italy.
Marriage -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Formularies.
Notarial documents.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A brief explanation of the office of notary and the purpose of notarial documents (f. 1r), followed by transcriptions of deeds and acts arranged in subject order as examples for a notary drawing up a document. The numbering of books corresponding to subjects is frequently in error, and the manuscript was probably compiled for personal use by the notary Contarini (or Conticini). Subjects include loans, sale contracts, dowries, wills, confessions, and evidence. Deeds added at the end (f. 37v-40v) may be in multiple hands. A marginal note in a later hand is dated 1301 (f. 9r).

Contents:

1. f.1r: [Introduction]
2. f.1r-7v: Liber primus, [De mutuo]
3. f.7v-17r: Liber ii, De contractibus bone fidei.
4. f.17r-18v: Liber iii, De permutacionis.
5. f.18v-22r: Liber iiii [et v], De locacionibus et conductionibus, [De beneficio]
6. f.22r-23r: Liber vi, De donacionibus.
7. f.23r-24v: Liber vii, De matrimonio.
8. f.24v-26v: Liber viii, De societate comodato de posito mandato.
9. f.26v-28r: Liber viiii, De testamentis.
10. f.28r-30r: Liber x, De tutelis et curatoribus et inventariis.
11. f.30r-31r: Liber xi, De libertate et emancipacionis.
12. f.31r-35v: Liber xii, De transactionibus, De repudiacione hereditatis.
13. f.35v-37v: Liber xiii, De noticia libelli confessionum, testium, et sentencie.
14. f.37v-40v: [Additional deeds, with f.39v-40r erased]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century parchment) + 40 + ii (19th-century parchment); 1-5⁸. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines, with the first line of text above the line; ruled in lead; prickings visible on most leaves.
Script: Written in Gothic script.
Decoration: Small drawings in red ink of a bird (f. 27r) and a lion (f. 40v); sketch in black ink of an animal, perhaps a dragon (f. 9v); large initial in red ink with color wash and penwork (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials and chapter headings in red throughout.
Binding: 19th-century Italian gold-tooled diced leather.
Origin: Written in Padua between 1227 (earliest dated deed recorded in manuscript, f. 2r) and 1237 (beginning of tenure of Ezzolino da Romano, who does not appear in the manuscript, as podestà of Padua)

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Gabus (Bevaix, Switzerland), 11 Dec. 1989, lot 5253; handled by Sam Fogg (London) at some point between Gabus and Kraus.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 188 (1991), no. 6, and 199 (1995), no. 112; sold by H. P. Kraus to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 1996 (bookplate inside upper cover).
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 147 (LJS 54).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 54

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

699833067

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model