Details

Subjects:

Di Giovanni family.
Giovanni, Bernardo di.
Giovanni, Costanza di.
Third Order Secular of St. Francis.
Franciscans.
San Salvatore al Monte (Monastery : Florence, Italy).
Third orders.
Confraternities -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Confraternities.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Admission letter to the Third Order Secular of St. Francis (referred to as Confraternita del terzo ordine vismontano) addressed to the Florentine aristocrats and lifelong benefactors Bernardo di Giovanni di Giacomo, his wife Costanza di Giovanni, and their children Alessandro, Marco, Pietro, Lorenzo, Ginevra, Fiammetta, Camillo, and Caterina. Notarized by Don Giovanni di Ginestro, vicar of the Franciscan monastery of San Salvatore al Monte, on 13 December 1488.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan).

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. 228 (Ms. Lea 398).

Contributor:

Ginestro, Giovanni di.

OCLC:

706697590