University of Pennsylvania, LJS 177

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DS ID:

DS118

Shelfmark:

LJS 177

Title:

Paludi Ponti[ne; visita delle strade di Roma

Paludi pontine

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1586-1760?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian and Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment and paper

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 356 leaves : parchment and paper ; 275 x 205 mm bound to 292 x 215 mm (with folded-out documents and maps up to 427 x 600 mm) +

Former Owner(s):

Millini, Pietro

Pietro Millini WIKIDATA

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Stanitz, John D

John D. Stanitz WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, i + 356 + i; printed items have individual signatures and some have pagination; items are numbered in pencil, with later numbers not always corresponding to this record.
Script: Written in cursive script by many hands.
Decoration: 2 engraved maps of the Pontine Marshes (f. 145r, 333r), 1 of Roman aqueducts (f. 184r).
Binding: 18th-century parchment, lacking one pair of ties out of 2, title Paludi Pontine, visita delle strade di Roma and shelf number 142 in ink on spine.
Origin: Written in Italy, mostly in Rome, between 1586 and 1760.
Several component items formerly owned by Pietro Millini; the volume formerly in the archives of the Millini, a noble family of Rome (Kraus), and in the Colonna Biblioteca (Phillipps).
Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford; sold at auction at Messrs. Evans (London) as part of his collection, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 289, vol. 16, to bookseller Thomas Thorpe.
Sold by Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7636 (label on spine).
Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to Hans Peter Kraus, Mar. 1978.
Sold by Hans Peter Kraus, List 204 (1982), no. 74, to John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 8.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Finding tabs

accounts

reports

maps (documents)

Hybrid books

Manuscripts, European

Manuscripts, Italian

Italy--Rome

Italy--Sermoneta

Early works

City planning

Rome (Empire)

Rome (Italy). Maestri delle Strade

Aqueducts

Italy--Cisterna di Latina

Italy--Pontine Marshes

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958279783503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3bk16q7m/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania