[Collection of notarial documents]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1499

Description:

A collection of notarial imbreviature mostly concerned with officializing business transactions and other matters of property exchange, in particular those of Bartholomew Boninsigne de Boninsignis. Each item ends with a notarial signet, with the later signets being stamped rather than drawn. The imbreviature are mostly from the 16th century, although there are a few late additions from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Language:

Latin; Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan, Italy), 1959.

Subject:

Commerce -- Early works to 1800; Commerce

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); financial records; notarial documents; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

121 leaves : parchment; 251 x 151 mm bound to 239 x 170 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Commerce; Italy; Siena (Italy) -- History

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Incipit: In nomine domini amen. Anno ab ipsius domini salutifera ... (f. 1r); Explicit: ... Tomaso Buonin regni Domenicano (f. 94v).; Foliation: Parchment, ii + 119; 1-86, [87-119]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in multiple hands.; Decoration: Large pen-and-ink initials at the beginning of some imbreviature (for example, f. 1r); notarial signets throughout.; Binding: Contemporary full leather over wooden boards, blind-stamped, with brass bosses and clasps (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in Siena, 1499-1585.; Written in Latin with a small amount of Italian (f. 91r-94v).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1234