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Title

Informatio de statu episcopatus Vaciensis

Authors

• Pongracz, Georgius, Bishop of Vác, d. 1676

Call number

Ms. Codex 1021
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3848047
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3848047

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1675

Place

Austria?

Summary

A report on the bishopric of Vác between 1669 and 1675, during which time it was under Turkish occupation, including a map of the bishopric and discussion of clandestine masses, a visit under Turkish safe-conduct, and congregation statistics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from caption heading (f. 1r); date from discussion of "anni modo currentis 1675" (f. 4v and 5r).
   
• Incipit: In fine anni 1669 Sua Majestas Sacerrima per promotium ad episcopatum Agriensem ... (f. 1r).
   

Extent

22 leaves : 289 x 188 (231 x 133) mm. bound to 294 x 191 mm

Collation

Paper, i (folded map attached inside front cover) + i (contemporary paper) + 20 + i (contemporary paper); 1¹² 2⁸; modern foliation in pencil. A bifolium in a very similar hand with passages from the last few leaves is laid in at the end of the work.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century red silk over paper boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 26-28 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in an Italian chancery hand (bookseller's description).

Provenance

• Purchased, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church.--Diocese of Vác (Hungary)

Genres

• Codices
• Maps
• Pictorial maps
• Reports
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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