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Title

Collection of notarial documents

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 498
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915811013503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448633
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581101

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1506-1668

Place

Ferrara

Summary

Bound collection of original and copied documents from Ferrara, incomplete at the beginning. The first five folios are notarized copies from the year 1637; followed by three earlier documents (1589, 1518, 1506); chronologically consecutive copies, 1626-1668, and a name index (f. 88r-92r). Several documents are marked with notarial signets, either drawn or stamped.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Section of parchment leaves, f. 1-11, are nearly detached; folios 66-67 are completely detached.
   

Extent

99 leaves : 301 x 220 mm. bound to 224 x 230 mm

Foliation

Parchment and paper, 99; [ii], 1-8, [i], 9-65, [i], 66-79, [80-95]; near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Earlier foliation in ink, upper right recto, with many numbers crossed out or partially trimmed away.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

17th-century paper boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script by various hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 5v — Notarial signet, f. 5v
• fol. 7r — Notarial signet, f. 7r
• fol. 8v — Notarial signet, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 9r
• fol. 10r — Notarial signet, f. 10r
• fol. 12r — Notarial signet, f. 12r
• fol. 79v — Stamp, f. 79v