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Title

El Masaniello

Authors

• Fontoli, Gabriel

Call number

Ms. Codex 142
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1551766
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551766

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish; translated from the Italian original by Padre Alonso de Flores, S.J., at the command of the Duke of Arcos (note, f. i recto, 1r)

Origin

Date

ca. 1650

Place

Spain

Summary

Account of the popular uprising against Spanish rule in Naples on 7 July, 1647, led by the fisherman Tommaso Aniello, called Masaniello.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: Suele la esperiencia mostrarnos ... (f. 1r).
   
• The Duke of Arcos, at whose command Fr. Flores made this translation, was the Spanish viceroy in Naples.
   

Extent

64 leaves : 117 x 153 (187 x 101) mm. bound to 224 x 164 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 64 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-60, [61-63]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards. Stains. Some cracking and splitting of the leaves at the edges. Paper slightly brittle. A few holes.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with corrections throughout, probably in the hand of the translator. Title page (f. i recto) is written in a different hand and appears to be a later addition.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, Munich, 1959.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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