Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Martinus, son of Forte
• Maius, son of Martinus

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4996560
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4996560

Publisher

Language

Summary

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

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold by Maggs Bros., Aug. 1998, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Real property--Italy--9th century

Genres

• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, Latin--9th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

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