Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Medici contracts

Authors

• Jordanis, Franciscus de
• Jordanis, Joannes Baptiste de
• Vicchi, Sebastian de Franceschis

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1446
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944647153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313814816
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4464715

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some Italian passages

Origin

Date

1552-1569

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of contracts involving Carlo Bernardo Alamanni de' Medici, most concerning property and goods, but many also concerning debts, sales, purchasing of titles, and inheritances. Some regard ecclesiastical properties. The title page (f. i recto) contains a later list of revised deeds, organized by year and page number, dated 1656. Divided into sections based on date, from 1552 to 1569. Most of the interactions and goods described are located near or in Florence. Many concern Giovanni Baptista Detti, Camillo de' Medici, Francisco from the ship Decumano, and a Bartolomeo. Many of the properties have been entrusted to Carlo de' Medici, who then rented them out. Details included about the various properties regard crops, houses, the kinds of trees on a property, barrels for wine, and so on. Last quire is detached from the rest of the codex. Contains marginal notes, mostly in Italian summarizing the Latin text, throughout, as well as a few notarial signets. Notaries include Franciscus de Jordanis (f. 14r), Joannes Baptiste de Jordanis (f. 14r), and Sebastian de Franceschis Vicchi (f. 15r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Etoile 6098 (Siena, 1550-1555), f. 32-45; five-pointed crown with a floral shape beneath (f. 48).

Extent

50 leaves : 280 x 210 (240 x 165) mm. bound to 290 x 235 mm

Collation

Paper, 50; 1-3¹⁶ 4²; [i], 1-48, [49]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 126 on spine; the heading Libro di contracti, no. 9 on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Layout

Written in 20-27 long lines.

Decoration

Face within initial C in ink (f. i recto); ink drawing of a kind of pillar topped with a crescent moon (f. 8v).

Script

Written in various italic cursive hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Real property--Italy--16th century
• Inheritance and succession--Italy
• Church property

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Legal

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 8v — Drawing, Pillar with crescent, f. 8v