University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 698

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DS ID:

DS1601

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 698

Title:

Registro di lettere di monsignore archivescovo di Rossana che fu poi Papa Urbano Settimo della sua nunciatura di Spagna sotto Pio Quarto, Pio Quinto, e Gregorio Decimoterzo.

Author:

Castagna, Giovanni Battista

Urban VII WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1572 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with a few copies in Latin and Spanish

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 volumes (386, 420 leaves) : paper ; 298 x 218 (243 x 147) mm bound to 299 x 218 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, with complete title written on the spine of both volumes. Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink in sections of both volumes.
Title and attribution from title page (v. 1, f. i recto).
Foliation: V.1: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 386; [v], 1-380, [i]; V. 2: Paper, 420; [iv], 1-416; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th century.
Formerly owned by Abb. Francisci de Fucciis (v. 1, f. v recto); ownership stamp in v. 1 erased, in v. 2 cut out.
Purchased, 1972.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Spain

Catholic Church

Pius IV, Pope, 1499-1565

International relations

Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585

Urban VII, Pope, 1521-1590

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874873503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30r9md6q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania