Collection of 16th- and 17th-century copies of legal, financial, and notarial documents covering the years 1395-1667, concerning the affairs of members of various Florentine families, such as the Gondi (including Caterina, Maddalena, Girolamo, Giovanbattista, Lorenzo, and Antonfrancesco Gondi); the Medici (including Cosimo I, grand-duke of Tuscany, Tommaso, Alessandro, Pandolfo, and Vieri); and the Scalandroni (Jacinto, Giovanbattista, Tommaso, and their father Niccolò). Most of the legal and notarial documents concern dowries, wills and their execution and, in certain cases, controversies related to them. A number of inventories of real and personal property belonging to members of the Gondi and the Medici family is also present.
These documents have been disbound from a heavy paper cover with the pages of the documents numbered consecutively throughout the volume. The cover is stored with the documents.; In Italian and Latin.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 750 Folders 112-121, 140
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