Lotto 174 | HANDWRITTEN REGISTER OF LAWSUITS, PURCHASES OF GOODS AND LANDS, TRANSACTIONS...

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HANDWRITTEN REGISTER OF LAWSUITS, PURCHASES OF GOODS AND LANDS, TRANSACTIONS...

HANDWRITTEN REGISTER OF LAWSUITS, PURCHASES OF GOODS AND LANDS, TRANSACTIONS OF MONEY AND OTHERS ACTIVITIES REFERRED TO THE PROPERTIES UNDER THE ABBEY OF ST. ANDREW IN RIVER TIBER (ROME), FROM 1621 TO 1741

Ill.mo et R. D. Ludovicus Card. Ludovic[...] Altieri et Commen.rio presso Abb. S. Andrei […] Registrum […]. Without place [nearby Rome], 1621-1741.

Manuscript on paper, 222x164 mm, original full vellum binding, with a folding vellum closure, traces of ties, with dedication and title handwritten at front cover [not easily readable]; leaves [1 b.], [8], [1 b.], [11], [1 b.], [8], [8 b.]; the initial 20 pages are numbered.

The notebook starts on 13 February 1621 and stops on 22 february 1741, having been written by at least three or four different “hands”. The document deserves further studies: anyhow, at first sight, it seems to be a register, taken by a notary or an accountant, referred to all the lawsuits, the purchases of pieces of land or goods, the transactions of money referred to the land and properties owned by Roman Church nearby Rome, depending from the Abbey of Saint Andrew in river Tiber (“Sant’Andrea in flumine”) where the administrator (“Commendatario”) at that time was a Cardinal of the Roman Church [probably one of these Cardinals was Lorenzo Altieri (1671-1741) even if in the title at front cover is mentioned a certain Ludovicus … Altieri].

In the text, inserted free between the pages, there are still some letters, documents and notes of the time; among them, there is a letter dated 1626.