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

Title

Dispacci e lettere scritte dal Principe dal 1628 al 1629 per la città di Marsala

Authors

• Requesens, Antonio de'

Call number

Ms. Codex 1574
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4829474
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4829474

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with passages in Italian, and Sicilian dialect

Origin

Date

after 1631

Place

Sicily

Summary

Miscellany of copies of documents, predominantly letters, dispatches, and petitions written to and by Antonio Requesens, prince of Pantelleria, during the years 1628-1631. Most items, written in Marsala or in the nearby areas, deal with a wide range of legal disputes and requests from prisoners (or legal functionaries, perhaps lawyers, acting on their behalf) for a favorable resolution of said dispute, time reduction, or, in certain cases, a pardon. The documents contained in the miscellany are arranged in a casual manner and in no chronological order. Latin, Italian, and Sicilian dialect are used interchangeably, with occasional linguistic contamination between the three within the same document.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from note pasted inside upper cover.
   
• Forms part of: Villafiorita Ducal Records.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Arbalète 756 (Naples, 1593); and unidentified watermark containing the letters P and A and a clover leaf between them.

Extent

61 leaves : 300 x 205 mm. bound to 305 x 215 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 61; [1-61]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards. 1626 et 1627, Requesens ... 1628 et 1629, ac etiam ... 1629-1630 et anni ... 1630-1631, as well as other very faded writing in ink, some barely visible and readable, on upper cover. Some smudges and stains, possibly some water damage, especially on upper cover. Cover boards slightly warped. Binding pulling apart. Paper shows some evidence of worm damage, but with very little loss of text.

Script

Written in cursive script, by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Kurt. L. Schwarz (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
   

Subjects topical

• Law--Italy--History--17th century--Sources
• Lawyers--Italy--Marsala--History--17th century
• Real property--Italy--Sicily--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Notarial documents
• Petitions
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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