A brief explanation of the office of notary and the purpose of notarial documents (f. 1r), followed by transcriptions of deeds and acts arranged in subject order as examples for a notary drawing up a document. The numbering of books corresponding to subjects is frequently in error, and the manuscript was probably compiled for personal use by the notary Contarini (or Conticini). Subjects include loans, sale contracts, dowries, wills, confessions, and evidence. Deeds added at the end (f. 37v-40v) may be in multiple hands. A marginal note in a later hand is dated 1301 (f. 9r).
Language:
Latin
Provenance:
Sold at auction at Gabus (Bevaix, Switzerland), 11 Dec. 1989, lot 5253; handled by Sam Fogg (London) at some point between Gabus and Kraus.; Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 188 (1991), no. 6, and 199 (1995), no. 112; sold by H. P. Kraus to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Sept. 1996 (bookplate inside upper cover).; Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Relation:
Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333034; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs54.html; Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/51
40 leaves : parchment; 154 x 110 (115 x 69) mm bound to 161 x 121 mm
Geographic Subject:
Italy
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r: [Introduction]; Table of contents: 2. f.1r-7v: Liber primus, [De mutuo]; Table of contents: 3. f.7v-17r: Liber ii, De contractibus bone fidei.; Table of contents: 4. f.17r-18v: Liber iii, De permutacionis.; Table of contents: 5. f.18v-22r: Liber iiii [et v], De locacionibus et conductionibus, [De beneficio]; Table of contents: 6. f.22r-23r: Liber vi, De donacionibus.; Table of contents: 7. f.23r-24v: Liber vii, De matrimonio.; Table of contents: 8. f.24v-26v: Liber viii, De societate comodato de posito mandato.; Table of contents: 9. f.26v-28r: Liber viiii, De testamentis.; Table of contents: 10. f.28r-30r: Liber x, De tutelis et curatoribus et inventariis.; Table of contents: 11. f.30r-31r: Liber xi, De libertate et emancipacionis.; Table of contents: 12. f.31r-35v: Liber xii, De transactionibus, De repudiacione hereditatis.; Table of contents: 13. f.35v-37v: Liber xiii, De noticia libelli confessionum, testium, et sentencie.; Table of contents: 14. f.37v-40v: [Additional deeds, with f.39v-40r erased]; Collation: Parchment, ii (19th-century parchment) + 40 + ii (19th-century parchment); 1-5⁸. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 25 long lines, with the first line of text above the line; ruled in lead; prickings visible on most leaves.; Script: Written in Gothic script.; Decoration: Small drawings in red ink of a bird (f. 27r) and a lion (f. 40v); sketch in black ink of an animal, perhaps a dragon (f. 9v); large initial in red ink with color wash and penwork (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials and chapter headings in red throughout.; Binding: 19th-century Italian gold-tooled diced leather.; Origin: Written in Padua between 1227 (earliest dated deed recorded in manuscript, f. 2r) and 1237 (beginning of tenure of Ezzolino da Romano, who does not appear in the manuscript, as podestà of Padua); Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 54
Collection:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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