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Title

Filza LII: segnata: F.3 Gondi et altri

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1548
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9945167223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/422510880
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4516722

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with a few documents in Italian

Origin

Date

1478-1667

Place

Florence

Summary

Approximately 100 (largely original, but with some copies) miscellaneous legal documents, trial proceedings, accounts, petitions, and letters, covering the years 1478-1667 but mostly concentrated in the years 1528-1536. Concerns the affairs of members of numerous Florentine aristocratic families, primarily those of the Machiavelli and Buonaccorsi families, but also including the Gondi, and Medici families. Discusses their business activities, and their legal disputes with one another, or with the Monte di pietà moneylenders. The miscellany, referred to as a filza, primarily consists of documents in Latin, but a few documents in Italian (for example, f. 640r-649v) are also present. Almost all of the legal documents and proceedings contained in the manuscript are related to a large lawsuit between the Gondi and the Machiavelli, which took place between 1531-1536 (Zacour-Hirsch), related to dowries, inheritances, and the management and custody of properties and goods connected with these. One of the main issues appears to have concerned the inheritance of several Buonaccorsi brothers, which was split into parts. These issues constitute the central and largest part of the filza (f. 32r-639r). Other documents include the division of the inheritance of Niccolò di Piero Buonaccorsi with Simone Gondi (example on f. 299r); various chronicles of the disputes concerning the dowries of Caterina, Costanza (also referred to as Gonstanza), and Camilla Buonaccorsi (for example, f. 640r-641v, f. 643r-649v, and f. 671r); and a diverse range of property sale contracts and deals. Other names frequently mentioned include Ludovico Buonaccorsi (f. 671r), Simone Gondi (f. 395r), Ludovico Machiavelli (f. 686r), Lorenzo di Niccolò Machiavelli (f. 26r), Giovanbattista Gondi (f. 709r), and the mother of Caterina, Constanza, and Camilla Buonaccorsi, also named Constanza Buonaccorsi. Many of the documents were written or signed by the same Florentine notary, Francisco de Machanis (example on f. 313v) who seems to have worked primarily for Simone Gondi and his family. Includes several genealogical tables of some families. Marginalia and other miscellaneous notations appear throughout the volume.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. [i] recto).
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Extent

756 leaves : 295 x 220-230 mm

Foliation

Paper, 756; [i], 1-584, [i], 585-640, [641-693], 694, [695-752]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century wrapper with leather ties. Filza LII, F.3, Gondi, and no. 335 on a label on spine. Gatherings tied with string with metal tips.

Script

Written in various cursive hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy)
• Monte di pietà (Florence, Italy)
• Civil law--Italy
• Inheritance and succession--Italy
• Real property--Italy
• Dowry--Italy
• Marriage law--Italy
• Accounts

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Accounts
• 15th century
• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Legal

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