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Finding Aid for the Collection of Dated Documents from England, France, Italy, Spain, and Austria, 1198-1585
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  • Administrative Information
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  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Collection of Dated Documents from England, France, Italy, Spain, and Austria,
    Date (inclusive): 1198-1585
    Collection number: 2070
    Extent: 1 oversize box
    Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.
    Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
    Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
    Language: English.

    Administrative Information

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Restrictions on Access

    COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.

    Provenance/Source of Acquisition

    B. Rosenthal, purchase, 1962.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Collection of Dated Documents from England, France, Italy, Spain, and Austria (Collection 2070). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4232724 

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of sixteen original documents from England, France, Italy, Spain and Austria, most of them written in Latin or French, with one in German. Latin documents include: grant of privileges to the monastery of Peleias by Alphonso IX, King of León and Galicia and his queen, Berenguela (Salamanca, 1198), a deed of sale for a plot of land in Pisa (1313), a bequest of land in the region of Calcinara (Pisa, 1350), an acceptance of a mother's dotal deed and related obligations (Florence, 1358), grant of permission from Francesco I da Carrara, Lord of Padua, to his wife Domina Fina to give a house in exchange for land and a release from the legacy of her uncle (Padua, 1378), an acknowledgement of a receipt for payment of a dowry (Poggibonsi, 1411), a deed giving land, a mill, and water rights (Piacenza, 1481), two resignations of estates in favor of others (England, 1585), and a bull of Pope Julius III addressed to Dominicus de Servinis, cleric of the diocese of Cortona, concerning a benefice in the monastery of St. Peter at Lodi (Milan) (St. Peter, Rome, 1550). French documents include: an acknowledgement of receipt for payment from the Countess of Blois (France, 1346), three agreements made before the king's counselor at the Châtelet (Paris, 1405, 1478, & 1558). The German document is a patent letter by brothers Albert III and Leopold III, Dukes of Austria in favor of another (Neuenstadt, Austria, 1368).

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    Contracts--Europe--Manuscripts.