Translation / modern text
[Notary's sign]
In the name of Christ, amen. In the year of His birth one thousand five hundred and seventy-seventh, in the fifth indiction, on Saturday the twenty-first of the month of September, in the village of Telve di Sotto, in the room of the house of the distinguished master Giovanni Battista Buffa [...]. In the presence of witnesses: Tomeo, son of Simone de Zanettis of Musclo, and Giovanni, son of [...] of Carzano, both witnesses called and requested.
There, Antonio, son of Nicola [... of Carzano], voluntarily and in every best way by his own right [...] sold and by his own right [...] transferred to the distinguished master Giovanni Battista, son of the distinguished master Gasparo Buffa of Telve di Sotto, present, buying, stipulating, and receiving for himself and his heirs from this day, and from there the distinguished master Pietro, his brother [...] a garden or enclosure of meadows [...] repeatedly requested, located in the village of Carzano under the municipality and [...] Telve [...]: from the east Nicola de Chrome [...]; from the south the public road; from the west Giacomo Gaspar [...]; from the north the public road [...]. Likewise, one meadow, better by labor and care, located in the said district in that place [...].
To have, hold, and use, so that nothing shall be lacking to the said buyer and his heirs from now on [...] with all and individual rights, jurisdictions, easements, and legal claims that belong to the said sale [...].
And this for twenty-three quarters of denarii of currency [...], which greater sum the seller himself was satisfied with in this month and confessed to have had and received from the said master buyer on account of the price; which he ought to give and pay to the same master buyer from the account and balance drawn up, as it appears in the book of R[...]. And in this way, he was satisfied that he had received part of the money of the taker and the remaining [...] and newly received the said price, as above; from which he renounced the complaint of bad faith [...].
Promising the said Antonio, the seller, in his own name and that of his heirs [...] to legally defend the said sold item to the said master buyer and his heirs [...] against every person [...].
[Notary's sign]
I, Antonio, son of master Giovanni Michele, notary from Borgo Valsugana, public notary by imperial authority, have written down the above all and individual acts as I was requested and publicly, and hence I have signed and affixed my greater customary sign with consent and satisfaction etc.
[Second part / ratification or subsequent act of the same date:]
Year, indiction, day, place, and before the witnesses signed below etc. [...] the above-written Gregorio, son of Giovanni Battista [...]
[...]
[Notary's sign]
I, Antonio, son of master Giovanni Michele, notary from Borgo Valsugana, public notary [...]
[Spine:]
[Contemporary note:] + 1577 + 21 September
[Archival note:] 346
[Further faded Italian notes:] [...] in Meano [...]
[Library sticker / stamp:] Library of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv, no. 1000/8.
Original wording — transcription
[Signum notarii]
In Christi nomine amen. Anno a nativitate eiusdem millesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo septimo, inditione quinta, die Sabathi vigesimo primo mensis Septembris, in villa Telvi Inferioris, in stuba domus egregii domini Jo[hannis] Baptistae Buffae [...]. Presentibus testibus Thomeo filio Simonis de Zanettis de Musclo et Joanne filio [...] de Carzano, ambobus testibus vocatis et rogatis.
Ibiq[ue] Antonius filius Nicolai [... de Carzano], sponte et omni meliori modo iure proprio [...] vendidit et iure proprio [...] tradidit egregio domino Jo[hanni] Baptistae filio egregii domini Gasparis Buffae de Telvo Inferiore presenti, ementi, stipulanti et recipienti pro se suisq[ue] heredibus a die et inde egregij d[omini] Petri eius fratris [...] hortum seu clausuram pratorum [...] pluries petitam positam in villa Carzani sub commune et [...] Telvi [...]: a mane Nicolai de Chrome [...]; a meridie via communis; a sero Jacobus Caspar [...]; a monte via communis [...]. Item unum pratum melius ope et cura positum in dicto regulo in loco Illo [...].
Ad habendum, tenendum et possidendum, nequid dicto tam emptori suisq[ue] heredibus deinceps pertineat [...] cum omnibus et singulis suis juribus, iurisdictionibus, servitutibus et actionibus que ad dictum spectat venditum [...].
Et hoc pro viginti tribus quater denariorum de moneta [...], quod plus ipse me[n]se venditor contentus et confessus fuit habuisse et recepisse a dicto domino emptore in partem pretij; quos dare et solvere tenetur eidem domino emptori a computo et saldo facto ut constat in libro R[...]. Atq[ue] eo modo contentus fuit habuisse partem pecuniarum capientis et reliquas [...] ac de novo recepti dicti pretij ut supra; de quibus doli mali actioni [...] renuntiavit [...].
Promittens dictus Antonius venditor per se et suos heredes [...] dictam rem venditam dicto domino emptori eiusq[ue] heredibus [...] contra omnem personam [...] legitime defensare [...].
[Signum notarii]
Ego Antonius filius domini Joannis Michaelis notarii Burgo Ausugii publicus imperiali authoritate notarius supradictis omnibus et singulis factis prout rogatus et publice scripsique exinde subscripsi signumque meum maius apposui consuetum cum consensu et contentamento etc.
[Druga cześć / ratyfikacja lub kolejny akt z tej samej daty:]
Anno, inditione, die, loco et testibus infrascriptis etc. [...] suprascriptus Gregorius filius Jo[hannis] Baptistae [...]
[...]
[Signum notarii]
Ego Antonius filius domini Joannis Michaelis notarii Burgo Ausugii notarius publicus [...]
[Verso:]
[Nota z epoki:] + 1577 + 21 Settembre
[Nota archiwalna:] 346
[Dalsze zatarte noty włoskie:] [...] in Meano [...]
[Wklejka / pieczątka biblioteczna:] БІБЛІОТЕКА НАУКОВОГО ТОВАРИСТВА ІМЕНІ ШЕВЧЕНКА У ЛЬВОВІ, Ч. 1000/8.
Reading notes
Document drawn up by the imperial notary Antonio, son of the notary Giovanni Michele from Borgo Valsugana (Burgo Ausugii, Trentino). It concerns the sale of plots (meadow, garden/enclosure) in Carzano to Giovanni Battista Buffa of Telve di Sotto (Telvo Inferiore). Parchment preserved in good condition, with a small hole (puncture) visible at the top center. On the verso, a sticker of the Library of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv with the number 1000/8. Two notarial signs (signum notarii) on the recto.





