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