University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 454

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DS ID:

DS1532

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 454

Title:

Morte dell'illustrissimo sig. Troilo Savello decapitato in Roma nel Castello Sant' Angelo alli 18 d'aprile 1592 /

Author:

Biondi, Giuseppe, 1537-1598

Giuseppe Biondi WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome

Rome TGN

Date:

[1600?]

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : paper ; 196 x 150 (172 x 120) mm bound to 203 x 157 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Rome, ca. 1600.
Title from caption title (f. 1r); added title page in 19th-century hand: Morte del Baron Troilo Savello, giustiziato in Roma, 1592.
Foliation: Paper, 50; [1-50]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Quarter calf with marbled paper and [earlier?] label: Biondo, Suplicio del B.T. Savello.
The trial (for murder) is mentioned by L. Pastor in his Geschichte der Päpste (11th ed., p. 619-620) where he refers to an Italian pamphlet on the execution. Biondo's text came out in several English and French editions, but neither the British Museum nor the Bibliothèque nationale (Paris) lists an Italian printed edition (Zacour-Hirsch).
Appears in Hoepli catalogs 59 (1890), no. 491, and 83 (1893), no. 17.
Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1967.
Formerly owned by Conte Paolo Vimercati-Sorzi (bookplate, flyleaf i verso).

Keyword:

biographies (literary genre)

Biographies

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Savelli, Troilo, -1592

Christian martyrs

Italy

Christian life--Catholic authors

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924866253503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ht2gb6v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania