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

Title

Copies of documents pertaining to the Ospedale della Misericordia in Lucca

Authors

• Confraternita della Santa Croce (Lucca, Italy)

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 95
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122630901
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580412

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1489

Place

Lucca

Summary

15th-century copies of documents dated 1336-1489 pertaining to the founding by brothers Matteo, Nicola, and Piero Busdraghi of the Ospedale della Misericordia, of the Confraternita della Santa Croce, attached to the church of San Nicola in Lucca, to serve the poor and sick, and the subsequent history of the Ospedale.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit of first document: (f. 2r) Copia. Frater Guilelmus Dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopus Lucanus dilectis nobis in Christo filiis confratribus societatis ditte de Cruce in ecclesia et loco hospitalis misericordie de Luca positus intra portam Sancti Donati ...
   
• On the last few folios, particularly f. 47, much of the text is either missing or difficult to make out due to the deterioration of the paper.
   

Extent

47 leaves : 315 x 220 (235 x 160) mm. bound to 318 x 229 mm

Collation

Paper, 47; 1⁴⁴ 2²(+1); [1], 2-47; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Thick, white rag boards with sewing visible at spine. Edges reddened from acid in boards.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines.

Script

Written in an italic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Confraternities--Italy--Lucca

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

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