University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1460

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1363

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1460

Title:

Miscellanea storica di Guastalla.

Author:

Torelli family

Torelli family WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1492-1561, 1725.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 3 volumes (382, 275, 196 leaves) : parchment and paper ; bound to 300 x 210 mm (v. 1 & 2); 330 x 220 (v. 3)

Note:

Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch), 18th-century or later.
Origin: Written between 1492 (v.1, f. 1r) and 1561 (f. 43r), with one document copied in 1725 (v. 3, f. 34v).
Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: v.1: Paper, i + 380 + i; [i], [1-380]; v. 2: Paper, i + 273 + i; [1-273]; v. 3: Paper, 195 + i; [1-195]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Many documents have contemporary foliation of their own. All references are to modern foliation.
Script: Written in multiple cursive hands.
Decoration: Genealogical tables of the Torelli family (v. 3, f. 60v, 78v, 134v).
Two documents, folded and laid in, are now unfolded and filed in Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large) under Bremlen and Torelli.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, European

seals (artifacts)

legal documents

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

notarial documents

Fifteenth century

Law

Italy

History

Real property

Italy--Guastalla

Italy--Reggio Emilia (Province)

Sixteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944793163503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ms3k738/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania