Ernest Cushing Richardson Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Documents, 1380-1851

Collector
Richardson, Ernest Cushing, 1860-1939 [Browse]
Format
Manuscript
Language
  • Multiple languages
  • Italian
  • English
Description
  • 12 boxes
  • 23 items

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    Compiled/​Created
    1380-1851
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    Collection is open for research use.
    Summary note
    • The Ernest Cushing Richardson Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Documents consists of medieval and renaissance documents and manuscripts collected by Ernest Cushing Richardson, an American librarian and author. Of principal interest are some 350 documents (deeds, bonds, contracts, investitures, wills, and other legal documents), chiefly dating from 1380 to 1550 and written in Milan, Alessandria, Brescia, Cremona, Lodi, and other northern Italian cities.
    • Consists of medieval and renaissance documents and manuscripts collected by Richardson. Of principal interest are some 350 documents (deeds, bonds, contracts, investitures, wills, and other legal documents), chiefly dating from 1380 to 1550 and written in Milan, Alessandria, Brescia, Cremona, Lodi, and other northern Italian cities. Included are a series of documents pertaining to the monastery of San Pietro di Civate (near Como) and to other religious houses. Each notarial document come with a 19th-century description in Italian. There are also approximately 150 other documents. Including a selection of papal bulls, and documents from Rome, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, England, Ireland, and the United States, chiefly dating from the 17th-19th centuries. The collection also contains a numbered series of 25 bound manuscripts (chiefly canon law treatises and collections of documents pertaining to the history of the Roman Catholic church), copied by Italian scribes in the 17th-18th centuries.
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