Details

Subjects:

Turks -- Italy -- Ancona -- History.
Turks.
History.
Ancona (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.
Ancona (Italy) -- Commerce -- 16th century.
Italy -- Ancona.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Notarial documents.
Papal briefs.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian, last item in Latin.

Summary:

Collection of eight documents, dealing with economic and administrative matters for Ancona, Italy.

Contents:

1. Capitoli Anconitani. Two documents, one dated 26 March 1549, the second dated 2 April 1549 regarding the selection of two citizens to be sent to Rome to attend to important business (f. 2r-v); and
2. Reform of the statuta regulating commerce of the city, including relations with oriental merchants (f. 3r-7r).
3. Minuta nova dei capitoli facta da Messer Jacomo Jaromini (dealing with "li mercati turchi et gli altri"), (f. 8-9r).
4. Copia di capitoli di sensali (f. 10r-v).
5. Copia delli aggriavii che li mercati sentano dalli novi capitoli (f. 11r-12r).
6. Capitoli de sensali (f. 14r-16v).
7. Capitoli per i Turchi (f. 18r-20r). 8. [Breve] Paulus Papa III, February 21, 1547 establishing franchises for merchants (Jews, Turks, etc.) who wish to work or establish businesses in Ancona(f. 22r-27v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue. No overall title in manuscript.
Foliation: Paper, 28; [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by various hands; first two documents have the appearance of original documents, the remainder appear to be notarial or secretarial copies.
Binding: Contemporary paper cover, with inscription on inside lower cover: "Exhibiti et admissi, Ancone die xxvii martii 1549."
Origin: Written in Ancona, 1547-1549.

Cited in:

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. 169 (Ms. Lea 107 Italian).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 568

Contains:

Paul III, Pope, 1468-1549.

OCLC:

155966552