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Title

Il Sacco di Roma :

Authors

• Rossi, Patritio de

Call number

Ms. Codex 304
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580916
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580916

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy

Summary

Account of the sack of Rome in 1527 (p. 1-1131). Main text is preceded by a table of contents (p. ix-xxxix). Also includes a second work by the same author: Compendio delli casi più degni e memorandi occorsi nelli pontificati da Gregorio XIII sino ad Innocenzo X (p. 1-[41], second pagination). In both works, the text is accompanied by topical headings in the margins, in the same hand as the text. In the first text, these headings are numbered and are keyed to the index at the beginning.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. v).
   
• Spine label: Rossi. Sacco di Roma.
   
• Heading and incipit of first work (p. 1): Del Sacco di Roma. Parte Prima. Fin dalla mia adolescenza, vago ...
   

Extent

613 leaves : 263 x 200 (244 x 140) mm. bound to 272 x 202 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 613 + i; [xlii], 1-1132, 1-17, [18-52]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century stamped, gilt calf over boards. Cover worn at edges and splitting at outer hinges. Trimming has cropped away small portions of the text on some folios, especially in the second text. Some leaves frayed at the edges. Some stains and smudges. Some oxidation of ink, especially in the second text.

Layout

First work written in 24 long lines; second work written in 27-31 long lines.

Script

Primary work written in a cursive script by a single hand, with the second work written in a second hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Francesco Casado y Velas Chesa (owner's inscription, f. i recto); E. Silvestri, Milan (bookplate, dated 1908, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Arturo Aglietti (Rome), 1959.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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