[Legal records]

Description
A series of legal records of the Bagnano family, dated from 1493 to 1604. There is a table of contents on the inside of the upper and lower covers, listing the years, page numbers, and brief descriptions of the records in Italian. A collection of legal records, mostly consisting of wills, contracts, deeds, and inheritances. Some of the records include disagreements over inheritance, and others deal with claims of various monasteries in Florence. The family is sometimes referred to as Albagnano. Many of the records are notarized and contain notarial signets. Contains some marginal notes in a near-contemporary hand.
Creator
Bagnano family
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
deeds
legal documents
notarial documents
wills
Manuscripts, Latin
Manuscripts, Renaissance
Date
1493
Language
Latin
Italian
Subject
Inheritance and succession -- Italy
Inheritance and succession
Geographic Subject
Italy
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737
Extent
88 leaves : parchment ; 285 x 210 (240-250 x 180) mm bound to 288 x 213 mm
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 88; 1-4¹⁰ 5-10⁸; 1-11, [i], 12-84, [iii]; 1-11, [i], 84, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a variety of cursive and secretarial hands.
Decoration: Contains some initials with foliate decoration (example, f. 14v); manicules in margins throughout.
Binding: Parchment.
Origin: Written in Florence (f. 1r), 1493-1604.
Latin, with some Italian.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c24qn8p
Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/105
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1256
Provenance
Formerly owned by Prince Piero Ginor Conti (bookplate, inside lower cover).
Ginori Conti, Piero, 1865-1939, former owner.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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