University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 611

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DS ID:

DS1558

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 611

Title:

Collectanea opusculorum eruditorum et historicorum.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1563-ca. 1750]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian and Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 217 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 330 x 220 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Binding: 18th-century vellum.
Decoration: 2 fold-out watercolor maps of the Danube (f. 17, 21); double-page watercolor illustration of construction of an embankment (f. 25v-26r); engraved portrait of Charles VI (f. 15r).
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century paper?) + 217 + i (18th-century paper?); [i], [1-215], [i]; near-contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto. Evidence of earlier foliation or corners of folios torn off on many pages.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many hands, on different sizes of paper.
Purchased, 1962.
Formerly owned by Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

orations

Manuscripts, European

poems

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Histories

Manuscripts, Italian

codices (bound manuscripts)

engravings (prints)

watercolors (paintings)

Italian literature

Seventeenth century

Eighteenth century

Italian poetry

Italy--Venice

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924865683503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3736m44n/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania