Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Discorso dell' astrologia

Other related names

• Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 328
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580956
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580956

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

Discourse against astrology.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   
• Incipit: Molte volte io son andato ricercando nell' animo mio ... (f. 4r).
   
• Bookseller's description (Jacques Rosenthal) on file in Library.
   

Extent

62 leaves : 199 x 132 mm. bound to 213 x 146 mm

Foliation

Paper, 62; [1-62]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch). Some oxidation of ink.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines, with no right-hand margin on rectos and no gutter on versos.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly held in the libraries of the Albani family (no. 244) and Prince Baldassare Boncompagni of Rome (no. 144, label on cover).
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology
• Astrology--Italy--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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