Notarial Document, Spanish

Type: Document

Date: 19 January 1424

Setting: Spain (Barcelona)

Produced By/For: Petrus de Mathamala and Arnaldus Barnesii

Contents: Notarial document recording procurement agreement

Shelf Mark: Doc.Lat.3

Location: Drawer 5A/11 (Acc. 2015-016)

Description by Owen Hann and Shawna Laursen, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), April 2015

Notarial document recording procurement agreement between Petrus de Mathamala and Arnaldus Barnesii

Manuscript on parchment, roughly 530mm x 330mm, with 37 lines of Latin written in a cursive documentary hand of the first quarter of the fifteenth century. Unevenly trimmed and badly damaged. Torn around edges, especially at top and right, with two parchment patches over holes, the smaller of which extends from the top edge into the fourth line of text; the larger (90mm in height) disrupts lines 3-11. Some text and part of notarial countersignature at bottom edge lost due to trimming; general staining and discoloration throughout due to water and mold, some wormholes. The document was acquired rolled but is now housed flat; patterns of wear and creasing suggest that it was once folded quite small. A later cursive hand on the verso identifies the text as a notarial procurement: “Procura” and “Procura not(ari)al res.”

Origin

Spain (Catalonia, Girona and Barcelona)

Provenance

Purchased by Jonathan Bengtson from Monte Cristo Rare Books, 2014.

Signatories

Arnaldus Barnesii and Petrus de Mathamala

Witnesses

Arnaldus de Mathamala, Johannes Puyol, Johannes ça Roupa, Martinus Thomas, Petrus de Montecatheno, Jacobus Vitalis

Notaries

Petrus de Podio, Johannes Serra

Dates

21 March 1416 (notarization) and 19 January 1424 (document)

Places

Barcelona, Girona, Cassà de la Selva (Caciano de Silva), Matamala, Montcada (Montecatheno), Llagostera (Locustaria)

Decoration

Large initial “N” decorated with small face

Partial transcription* and description by Owen Hann and Shawna Laursen, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL) April 2015, is available here.

* Transcription practice follows Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, 2007), pp. 75-77.

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