Identifier:

COLLECTION 952, BOX 5.

Scope and content:

Libro autentico di compere, di effetti e censi di Piano e Potentino nello Stato Senese dal 1601 al 1615.

Acquisition information:

Another late manuscript is kept in this same box: Bartolomeo Dotti, Poesie e satire , s. XVIII, pp. 1170. A part of the Corsini collection; See COLLECTION 952, BOX 1. Source and date of acquisition by UCLA are unknown.

Physical description:

Parchment, ff. xviii (paper) + 240; 213 × 145 mm.

Bound in contemporary blind-stamped half leather over wooden boards. Two medieval pastedowns:

(i) [Justinian, ; Italy, s. XIII] //Imp. Negotiandi causa edificia . . . future non timeat detrimentum// [ , 8, 10, 2-9]. Upper portion of 1 leaf, 150 × 213 mm. 2 cols., of which 22 lines survive; gloss surrounding the text, of which 37 incomplete lines survive; ruling not discernible. Written in Italian gothic bookhand in university style (littera bononiensis); initials alternately red and blue. Another strip from this same manuscript, 65 × 210 mm., is pasted in the spine.

(ii) [Office of the dead; Italy, s. XV) //tue de corpore . . . Libera domine animam servi// 1 leaf, 220 × 160 (155 × 105) mm. 2 cols., of 31 lines; ruling not discernible. Written in an Italian gothic bookhand in liturgical style (littera textualis formata); initials and rubrics in red.

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