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Title

Cartolarii

Authors

• Contarinus, Magister

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

LJS 54
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949359023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/699837999
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4935902

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1227 and 1237

Place

Padua

Summary

A brief explanation of the office of notary and the purpose of notarial documents (f. 1r), followed by transcriptions of deeds and acts arranged in subject order as examples for a notary drawing up a document. The numbering of books corresponding to subjects is frequently in error, and the manuscript was probably compiled for personal use by the notary Contarini (or Conticini). Subjects include loans, sale contracts, dowries, wills, confessions, and evidence. Deeds added at the end (f. 37v-40v) may be in multiple hands. A marginal note in a later hand is dated 1301 (f. 9r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

40 leaves : 154 x 110 (115 x 69) mm. bound to 161 x 121 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (19th-century parchment) + 40 + ii (19th-century parchment); 1-5⁸.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century Italian gold-tooled diced leather.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines, with the first line of text above the line; ruled in lead; prickings visible on most leaves.

Decoration

Small drawings in red ink of a bird (f. 27r) and a lion (f. 40v); sketch in black ink of an animal, perhaps a dragon (f. 9v); large initial in red ink with color wash and penwork (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials and chapter headings in red throughout.

Script

Written in Gothic script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Gabus (Bevaix, Switzerland), 11 Dec. 1989, lot 5253; handled by Sam Fogg (London) at some point between Gabus and Kraus.
   
• Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 188 (1991), no. 6, and 199 (1995), no. 112; sold by H. P. Kraus to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 1996 (bookplate inside upper cover).
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Civil law--Italy
• Marriage--Italy
• Inheritance and succession--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Formularies
• Notarial documents
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Drawing
• Italian
• Italy
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Introduction, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Liber primus, De mutuo, f. 1r
• fol. 7v — Liber ii, De contractibus bone fidei, f. 7v
• fol. 17r — Liber iii, De permutacionis, f. 17r
• fol. 18v — Liber iiii [et v], De locacionibus et conductionibus, De beneficio, f. 18v
• fol. 22r — Liber vi, De donacionibus, f. 22r
• fol. 23r — Liber vii, De matrimonio, f. 23r
• fol. 24v — Liber viii, De societate comodato de posito mandato, f. 24v
• fol. 26v — Liber viiii, De testamentis, f. 26v
• fol. 28r — Liber x, De tutelis et curatoribus et inventariis, f. 28r
• fol. 30r — Liber xi, De libertate et emancipacionis, f. 30r
• fol. 31r — Liber xii, De transactionibus, De repudiacione hereditatis, f. 31r
• fol. 35v — Liber xiii, De noticia libelli confessionum, testium, et sentencie, f. 35v
• fol. 37v — Additional deeds, f. 37v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 9v — Drawing, Dragon[?], f. 9v
• fol. 27r — Drawing, Bird, f. 27r
• fol. 40v — Drawing, Lion, f. 40v