Finding Aid for the Collection of Dated Documents from England, France, Italy, Spain, and Austria, 1198-1585
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Finding Aid for the Collection of Dated Documents from England, France, Italy, Spain, and Austria, 1198-1585
Collection number: 2070
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
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© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
B. Rosenthal, purchase, 1962.
[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:
4232724
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).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Contracts--Europe--Manuscripts.
Note
Description derived from in-house card file.
Collection of Dated Documents from England, France, Italy, Spain and Austria, 1198-1585
Physical Description: (16 items in triple-oversize box)
Scope and Content Note
Described in: Dutschke, C.W., D.J. Dutschke and R.H. Rouse.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in California Libraries (vol.7 pp.89-92) (copy in Collection File).