Details

Subjects:

Real property -- Italy -- 9th century.
Real property.
Benevento (Italy) -- History.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Digital facsimile of document written on parchment in Benevento, Italy, in August of 823, recorded in the document as the seventh year of the principate of Sicone (Licone di Aurenza). Record of the sale of land including a vineyard and orchards in A lo Tuoro by Martinus, son of Forte, and his son, Maius, to Bonepaertus, son of Alfanus, for 4 Beneventan gold soldi and 2 tremisses (three-pence pieces). Signed by 6 witnesses. Written in a single column of 21 lines in the provincial chancery script that developed from Ravenna cursive and from which developed Beneventan bookhand, already in use by this date. 16th-century description on verso.

Notes:

Dimensions of original manuscript: 440 x 195 mm.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2010. Archivio della Badia di Cava.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Archivio della Badia di Cava (I n. 13 (ARCA 84 n. 205)), Cava de' Tirreni, Italy.
Sold by Maggs Bros., August 1998, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg (LJS 275).
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Transferred from the University of Pennsylvania to United States federal authorities, 2019.

Cited in:

Listed in Codex diplomaticus cavensis, Tomus primus (Naples: Petrus Piazzi, 1873), p.14 (I n. 13).
Described, transcribed, and photographed in Chartae Latinae antiquiores, volume 50 (Second series, ninth century, 1997), p. 48-51 (I n. 13 (ARCA 84 n. 205)).
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 146-147 (LJS 275).

Cited as:

Badia di Cava ARCA 84 n. 205.

Contributor:

Maius, son of Martinus.

OCLC:

725512036