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Title

Copies of documents relating to water rights in Milan

Authors

• Milan (Duchy)
• Blanche, of Savoy, consort of Galeazzo II Visconti, signore di Milano
• Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1351-1402
• Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, 1392-1447

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 342
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949541473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706710356
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4954147

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1444

Place

Milan

Summary

Copies of 9 documents relating to the illicit use of water and diversion of waterways in the territory of Milan, presumably to compile evidence of the legal status of these assets. The first 8, copies of documents originally written in 1382 to 1386, are from the correspondence of Blanche of Savoy, widow of Galeazzo II Visconti, and their son Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, first requesting that the Vicarius of Milan forbid the diversion of water and sue those having diverted water from the Rugia Sancti Columbani (San Colombano) and its tributary the Modio, and then recounting the proceedings of the ensuing lawsuits. The seventh and eighth documents have copies of notarial signets (f. 37v, 39r). The last document (f. 39v-43r) is a decree of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti dated 18 April 1444 prohibiting diversion of rivers and canals without permission. It begins with a note explaining that it was found at the Officium statutorum (f. 39v). The copies appear all to have been written at roughly the same time. Contemporary annotations, as well as annotations in 16th- and 17th-century hands, appear in the margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 186 x 138 (125 x 84) mm. bound to 189 x 153 mm. (including strap)

Collation

Parchment, i + 43 + i; 1-2²⁰ 3⁴ (-4); 1-43; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary leather wallet binding with restored strap but lacking buckle; inside of flap marked Carta 123 (or 193).

Layout

Written in 27 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, horizontal lines in text block ruled in faint ink on some leaves.

Decoration

Some manicules in margins.

Script

Written in cursive humanistic script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 29 Nov. 1999, lot 8, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Water rights--Italy--History

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Notarial documents
• Decrees
• Annotations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Legal
• Italian
• Document
• Annotated
• History
• Italy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 22r — Manicule, f. 22r
• fol. 29v — Manicule, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Manicule, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Manicule, f. 30v
• fol. 32r — Manicule, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Manicule, f. 32v
• fol. 40r — Manicule, f. 40r