Boston Public Library, MS f Med.298

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DS ID:

DS25474

Shelfmark:

MS f Med.298

Title:

Inventory of the estate of Nicoló de Lazara; in Latin

Inventory

Author:

De Lazara, Nicoló

Place:

Padua

Padua TGN

Date:

1423

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume (20 leaves) : parchment ; 286 x 195 (ca. 265 x 170) mm, bound to 286 x 210 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cheney, C. R. 1906-1987

Christopher Cheney WIKIDATA

Clough, Cecil H

Cecil H. Clough WIKIDATA

Hyde, John Kenneth

Kenneth Hyde WIKIDATA

Medin, Antonio, conte, 1857-1930

Antonio Medin WIKIDATA

Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms.codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Date from leaf 1r, lines 1-2: "In Christi no[m]i[n]e amen. Anno Eiusdem natiuitatis Millesimo Quadringent[essim]o vigesimo tercio. Indice prima die Iouis sextodecimo me[n]sis septembris".
Collation: Parchment, fol. 20 ; I20 ; modern arabic pencil foliation in upper right margins.
Script: Written in brown ink in an Italian notarial hand.
Layout: Single column, number of lines varies, some pages ruled in brown ink.
Decoration: Decorative initials at the beginning of introductory texts.
Binding: Limp parchment wrappers, the front with tacketed turn-in on the fore-edge. Contemporary sewn repairs of two small natural flaws in the parchment on the front and back covers.
Origin: Written in Padua, Italy by the notary Manfredo Spazza on 16 September, 1423. With his attestation and notary mark (signum tabellionis) in lower margin of most pages.
Provenance: With Count Antonio Medin prior to 1930. Acquired from Medin by the bookseller Francis Norman, likely circa 1925 (according to accompanying correspondence from C.R. Cheney). Purchased by Christopher Robert Cheney from Norman in October, 1933. Presented to John Kenneth Hyde by Cheney in 1973. Later acquired by Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). Sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., December 2023.
Call number: MS f Med.298.

Keyword:

Legal instruments

estate inventories

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Real property

Italy--Padua

Fifteenth century

Manners and customs

House furnishings

Italy

Decedents' estates

History

Religious life

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8712933

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8c97r538p/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library