Inventory of the estate of Nicoló de Lazara : in Latin

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Title:
Inventory of the estate of Nicoló de Lazara : in Latin
Description:
Manuscript inventory of the estate of Nicoló de Lazara, in the hand of the notary Manfredo Spazza, created in Padua, Italy, 16 September, 1423. The document details the contents of Nicoló's house, including a room by room listing of furniture, textiles, art, books, coins, and other objects; immovable properties, including farmland and residential and agricultural buildings; and lists of debtors and creditors to the estate. Includes an additional inscription on the inside of the back cover, dated 1529. Accompanied by three letters from Christopher Cheney to John Kenneth Hyde, 5 July - 6 August 1973, describing how Cheney acquired the manuscript and other related matters; also includes Cheney's partial transcript of the inventory.
Creator:
De Lazara, Nicoló, -1423
Former owner:
Cheney, C. R. (Christopher Robert), 1906-1987
Former owner:
Clough, Cecil H.
Former owner:
Hyde, John Kenneth
Former owner:
Medin, Antonio, conte, 1857-1930
Former owner:
Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Date:
[1423]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
estate inventories
Legal instruments
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
Decedents' estates--Italy--Padua--15th century
House furnishings--Italy--15th century
Legal instruments--Italy--Padua--15th century
Real property--Italy--Padua--15th century
Places:
Italy > Venetan (region) > Padova (province) > Padua
Padua (Italy)--Religious life and customs--15th century
Padua (Italy)--Social life and customs--15th century
Padua (Italy)--History--15th century
Extent:
1 volume (20 leaves) : parchment ; 286 x 195 (ca. 265 x 170) mm, bound to 286 x 210 mm
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Place of origin:
[Padua]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1r-2v: preambles, corpus, etc.
2. fol. 2r-8r: room by room inventory of movable property (begins: "Item manifestaverunt dicti tutores se ...").
3. fol. 8v: blank.
4. fol. 9r-14v: listing of immovable properties, inventories of other houses (begins "capitullum omnium bonorum immobilium ...").
5. fol. 15v-16v : list of creditors (begins "capitulum creditorum qui ...").
6. fol. 17r-18v: blank.
7. fol. 19r: list of debtors (begins "capitulum debitorum ...").
8. fol. 19v-20v: blank (19v originally blank; with near-contemporary endorsement).
Notes:
Ms.codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
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.
Notes (ownership):
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 (3 March 2020, lot 209) to Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., December 2023.
Purchase; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.; 20231219; 2023.108.3.
Notes (date):
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."
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
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.
Identifier:
06_01_019158
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.298
Barcode:
39999092832896