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Antonius Grassus (d.1491) and others

Lot 35
13.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 2 000
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Lot 35 | Antonius Grassus (d.1491) and others
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
Antonius Grassus (d.1491) and others

Ars Notariatus, and other excerpts from practical texts on notarial matters, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy, c.1500]

A rare insight into the mechanics of the Renaissance notarial profession, most likely written by or for a practicing legal notary.



225 x 155 mm, 12 leaves, apparently textually complete, collation: 14, 28, c.34 lines in a secretarial hand, some simple initials and large paraph mark sketched in penwork, watermark of an open hand or glove across central gutter of some leaves (the area of text block once affected by purple mould). Unbound.



Content:

The first text is a condensed version of chapters 1-3 of the rare Ars Notariatus, thought to be the work of Antonius Grassus, who held office as a professor of Canon Law in Bologna in 1472, later serving the Church as chancellor to Sixtus IV in 1486 and bishop of Tivoli until his death in 1491. It opens 'Ars notariatus est ars scribendi et dictandi […]', and was first printed in 1474 in Rome by Sachsel and Golsch. The texts that follow are based on excerpts from other texts on the functions of notaries and their activities, with numerous examples of formulae. Parallels can be found with another manuscript in Paris, BnF, Latin 14622, a 13th-century manuscript which opens with the Ars Notaria of the jurist and notary Salatiele of Bologna.

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