ITALY. Manuscript in Latin, on paper, bookish script, mid-15th century; 10pages in-fol. (notebook of 10 leaves, 5 blank); heavy marginal wetness with loss of text. Collection of historical documents and legal acts dating from the early Middle Ages [includes a date of December 15, 999] concerning the foundation of monasteries and churches in Italy (Piacenza, Brescia). The monograms of the Carolingian emperors who signed some of the privileges granted are reproduced. A document relating to the Bracciforti family is included. The document is preserved in a leaf with a note by H. Bracciforti, 1833: "Varii Privilegi antichi di varii"...; the notebook is incomplete of its final leaf or leaves. It contains poems on Saint Justina, Piacenza, Brescia and Pavia; texts on the building and consecration of the monastery of Santa Maria, and the church of Saint Savin bishop of Piacenza; a letter from Saint Ambrose archbishop of Milan to Saint Savin of Piacenza; the privilege on the building of the monastery of Saint Syste, and on the relics of the bodies of the martyrs Syste, Fabien, Marcel and Apulée in Piacenza; the will of Ingilberge, the former empress who had the monastery of Saint Syste built; privilege indicating how Lothaire, king of France and later emperor, was buried in the church of Saint Antoine de Piacenza; etc.