University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1438

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1356

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1438

Title:

Historical miscellany concerning Poland.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[after 1564]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian and Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 196 leaves : paper ; 320 x 220 (270 x 150) mm bound to 322 x 225 mm

Note:

Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Probably written in Italy, in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur de lis 7116 (Florence, 1530), (f. 1-108); and Homme 7573 (Milan, 1590), but with a more triangular body (f. 111-192).
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 185 + i (contemporary paper); 1-156, [i], 173-176, [v], 177-192, [193-195]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords, lower right verso. Folio between f. 156 and 173 has had the upper portion that contained the first few lines of text as well as the folio number cut away. There are five unnumbered stubs...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, European

legal documents

papal briefs

codices (bound manuscripts)

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Italian

Bona, Queen, consort of Sigismund I, King of Poland, 1494-1557

Spain

Jews

Christian heretics

Sixteenth century

Poland

1556-1598

Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598

Trials (Heresy)

1548-1572

International relations

History

Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572

Lippomano, Luigi, 1500-1559

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944557083503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3st7f01x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania