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Title

Collection of notarial documents

Call number

Ms. Codex 1234
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943687483503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234239205
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4368748

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Written in Latin with a small amount of Italian (f. 91r-94v)

Origin

Date

1499-1585

Place

Siena

Summary

A collection of notarial imbreviature mostly concerned with officializing business transactions and other matters of property exchange, in particular those of Bartholomew Boninsigne de Boninsignis. Each item ends with a notarial signet, with the later signets being stamped rather than drawn. The imbreviature are mostly from the 16th century, although there are a few late additions from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: In nomine domini amen. Anno ab ipsius domini salutifera ... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... Tomaso Buonin regni Domenicano (f. 94v).
   

Extent

121 leaves : 251 x 151 mm. bound to 239 x 170 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii + 119; 1-86, [87-119]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary full leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped, with brass bosses and clasps (Zacour-Hirsch).

Decoration

Large pen-and-ink initials at the beginning of some imbreviature (for example, f. 1r); notarial signets throughout.

Script

Written in multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan, Italy), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Commerce--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Financial records
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Notarial signet, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 3v
• fol. 7r — Notarial signet, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 7v
• fol. 9v — Notarial signet, f. 9v
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 10r
• fol. 11v — Notarial signet, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Notarial signet, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 12v
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 15r
• fol. 17v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 17v
• fol. 20v — Notarial signet, f. 20v
• fol. 24v — Notarial signet, f. 24v
• fol. 25v — Notarial signet, f. 25v
• fol. 27r — Notarial signet, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Notarial signet, f. 27v
• fol. 28v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 28v
• fol. 40v — Notarial signet, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Notarial signet, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Notarial signet, f. 42r
• fol. 66v — Notarial signet, f. 66v
• fol. 72r — Notarial signet, f. 72r
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 72v
• fol. 75r — Notarial signet, f. 75r
• fol. 76v — Notarial signet, f. 76v
• fol. 78v — Notarial signet, f. 78v
• fol. 81r — Notarial signet, f. 81r
• fol. 83v — Notarial signet, f. 83v
• fol. 87r — Notarial signet, f. 87r
• fol. 88v — Notarial signet, f. 88v
• fol. 90v — Notarial signet, f. 90v