Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of documents concerning inheritance

Authors

• Cattanei family

Other related names

• Cattaneus, Silvester, former owner
• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 860
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225059686
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178050

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1536-1549

Place

Genoa

Summary

Copies of the will of Domina Georgeta, daughter of Marco Centurioni and widow of Jeronimo Cattanei, and legal proceedings about the inheritance, involving primarily her grandson Silvester Cattanei and Isoltina, his brother Jeronimo's widow, dated 1548-1549, notarized by various officials of Genoa, with some earlier documents interspersed (Zacour-Hirsch).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
   
• Incipit (1st document): In nomine Domini Amen. Cum nil sit certius morte nil vero incertius hora ipsius quae in animo cuius libet...
   
• Notarial signatures, but no signets, follow most of the documents.
   

Extent

46 leaves : 205 x 149 (174 x 118) mm. bound to 210 x 152 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 46 + i (contemporary paper); [1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern paper boards.

Script

Written in several cancellaresca and notarial hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini (Kraus' description) and Silvester Cattaneus (inscription, front flyleaf i recto).
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus (Cat. 189, no. 41), April 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Inheritance and succession--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Notarial documents
• Wills
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Document
• Legal
• Italian
• Italy

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