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Title

Facsimile of LJS 275, Martinus land sale document

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

6-12-2015

Files

Comments

Document written on parchment in Benevento, Italy, in August of 823, recorded in the document as the seventh year of the principate of Sicone (Licone di Aurenza). Record of the sale of land including a vineyard and orchards in A lo Tuoro by Martinus, son of Forte, and his son, Maius, to Bonepaertus, son of Alfanus, for 4 Beneventan gold soldi and 2 tremisses (three-pence pieces). Signed by 6 witnesses. Written in a single column of 21 lines in the provincial chancery script that developed from Ravenna cursive and from which developed Beneventan bookhand, already in use by this date. 16th-century description on verso.

Keywords

Real property--Italy--9th century Legal documents, Manuscripts Latin--9th century, Manuscripts Medieval

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4996560

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs275.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 275, Martinus land sale document" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 152.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/152