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

Title

Opinione ... In qual modo debba governarsi la republica Venezia internamente et esternamente per havere perpetuo dominio

Authors

• Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623,

Call number

Ms. Codex 499
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486478
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486478

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

after 1615

Place

Italy

Summary

Work on the government of Venice, questionably attributed to the Venetian Servite monk Paolo Sarpi and supposedly written by him for the Inquistori di Stato, the highest decision-making body in the Venetian Republic. First published in 1681 under title: Opinione del padre Paolo servita, come debba governarsi la Republica veneziana per haverse il perpetuo dominio.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r), where work is ascribed to Padre Frà Paolo Servita.
   
• Same text as UPenn Ms. Codex 559.
   

Extent

84 leaves : 196 x 140 (175 x 102) mm. bound to 200 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 84; 1-84; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (some numerals trimmed off).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch) with village scene painted on lower cover; faint ink sketches of human figures on upper cover.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1952.
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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