University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 866

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1703

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 866

Title:

De republica Veneta /

Author:

Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542

Gasparo Contarini WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1525 and 1575]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 92 leaves : paper ; 201 x 142 (149 x 98) mm bound to 209 x 142 mm

Former Owner(s):

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Morbio, Carlo

Carlo Morbio WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit: Saepenumero animadverti complures advenas prudentas homines, nec bonorum artium ignaros, qui cum primum Venetias venissent...
Moderate oxidation of ink, books 1-3, a few folios illegible.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Explicit: Si enim quippiam bonum a Deo immortali hominibus provenire credibile ist, hoc praecipue divinitus Venetae urbi obtigisse persuasissimum cuilibet esse debet. Libri quinti et totius operis finis.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 92 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-90, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: 20th-century quarter vellum.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand, with contemporary or near contemporary marginal notes.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1957.
Sold by Guillaume Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 282.
Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).

Keyword:

histories (literary genre)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Italy--Venice

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931780593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pn8xg64/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania