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Title

Legal records

Authors

• Bagnano family

Other related names

• Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1256
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943954263503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246617836
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4395426

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some Italian

Origin

Date

1493-1604

Place

Florence

Summary

A series of legal records of the Bagnano family, dated from 1493 to 1604. There is a table of contents on the inside of the upper and lower covers, listing the years, page numbers, and brief descriptions of the records in Italian. A collection of legal records, mostly consisting of wills, contracts, deeds, and inheritances. Some of the records include disagreements over inheritance, and others deal with claims of various monasteries in Florence. The family is sometimes referred to as Albagnano. Many of the records are notarized and contain notarial signets. Contains some marginal notes in a near-contemporary hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

88 leaves : 285 x 210 (240-250 x 180) mm. bound to 288 x 213 mm

Collation

Parchment, 88; 1-4¹⁰ 5-10⁸; 1-11, [i], 12-84, [iii]; 1-11, [i], 84, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Parchment.

Decoration

Contains some initials with foliate decoration (example, f. 14v); manicules in margins throughout.

Script

Written in a variety of cursive and secretarial hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prince Piero Ginor Conti (bookplate, inside lower cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Inheritance and succession--Italy

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 6r — Notarial signet, f. 6r
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, Inside back cover