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Title

Book of deeds to various territorial acquisitions

Other related names

• Morbio, Carlo, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 868
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155861026
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178063

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Italian

Origin

Date

1598-1631

Place

Venice?

Summary

A collection of copies of deeds to territory in Moncelese or Catastico within the Venetian territories, dated from 1508 to 1631 and accompanied by various notarial signatures and signets. Preceded by a table of contents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• The first copy in the collection is dated 1598, but the collection does not progress in chronological order, ranging back to 1508.
   

Extent

89 leaves : 261 x 193 (203 x 135) mm. bound to 274 x 196 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 87 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1, 1-83, [84]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

17th-century morocco, gilt stamped.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by several hands.

Provenance

• Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.
   

Genres

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

Keywords

• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Legal

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 1r