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Title

Paludi Pontine

Authors

• Bolognini, Emerico
• Bufalini, Pietro Andrea
• Zanoli, Tomasso
• Cappucini, Giuseppe
• Lancisi, Giovanni Maria, 1654-1720

Other related names

• Millini, Pietro, former owner
• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 177
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958279783503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810279838
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5827978

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1586-1760

Place

Italy

Summary

Large, mid-18th-century compilation of records on 2 subjects: first, manuscript and printed texts on the reclamation (bonificazione) of the Pontine Marshes (Paludi Pontine) and the cutting of the forests of Sermoneta and Cisterna di Latina, and second, mostly manuscript records of the Maestri delle Strade or Congregazione delle Strade, the municipal body in charge of the streets of Rome, and particularly of Pietro Millini, one of the Maestri delle Strade. The materials on the Pontine Marshes range from 16th-century manuscripts (f. 3r-19v), to 3 engraved maps from the late 17th and 18th centuries (f. 145r, 184r, 333r), to substantial printed texts from the 18th century. 2 texts printed ca. 1715, which present arguments about the cutting of the forests of Sermoneta and Cisterna di Latina, have parchment finding tabs (f. 146r, 307r) that correspond to a partial table of contents at the beginning of the volume (f. 1r-1v), which notes that the 2 items are related. The records of the Maestri delle Strade are a group of late 17th-century manuscripts in the middle of the volume (f. 185r-306v) including correspondence, reports of street inspections (many signed by the architects Pietro Andrea Bufalini and Tomasso Zanoli), and a single printed edict (f. 233r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

356 leaves : 275 x 205 mm. bound to 292 x 215 mm. (with fold-out documents and maps up to 427 x 600 mm.) +

Foliation

Paper, i + 356 + i; printed items have individual signatures and some have pagination; items are numbered in pencil, with later numbers not always corresponding to this record.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

18th-century parchment, lacking one pair of ties out of 2, title Paludi Pontine, visita delle strade di Roma and shelf number 142 in ink on spine.

Decoration

2 engraved maps of the Pontine Marshes (f. 145r, 333r), 1 of Roman aqueducts (f. 184r).

Script

Written in cursive script by many hands.

Provenance

• Several component items formerly owned by Pietro Millini; the volume formerly in the archives of the Millini, a noble family of Rome (Kraus), and in the Colonna Biblioteca (Phillipps).
   
• Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford; sold at auction at Messrs. Evans (London) as part of his collection, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 289, vol. 16, to bookseller Thomas Thorpe.
   
• Sold by Thorpe to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7636 (label on spine).
   
• Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to Hans Peter Kraus, Mar. 1978.
   
• Sold by Hans Peter Kraus, List 204 (1982), no. 74, to John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 8.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Rome (Italy).--Maestri delle Strade
• Aqueducts--Italy--Rome--Early works to 1800
• City planning--Italy--Rome--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Maps
• Reports
• Finding tabs
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• 17th century
• 18th century
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• Accounts
• Financial records
• City planning

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — 18th-century table of contents for groups of documents, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Italian manuscript regarding the marshes dated 1586, f. 3r
• fol. 5r — Privilegii che desiderano li bonificatori delle Paludi Pontine, f. 5r
• fol. 9r — Quando la commenda di [?] ad instigatione..., f. 9r
• fol. 11r — Relatione ... della bonificatione, f. 11r
• fol. 13r — Mario Macealli, dottor di leggi, nelle cause della bonificatione delle Paludi Pontine, f. 13r
• fol. 15r — Manuscript copy of Latin letter to Flaminio Piatti, f. 15r
• fol. 16r — Fabius Ursinus ... in negocio bonificationis paludum Pontinarum, f. 16r
• fol. 18r — Italian letter to a cardinal concerning Giovanni Battista Garzoni and the reclamation of the marshes, f. 18r
• fol. 20r — Latin official document on parchment with signature and seal of Flaminio Piatti (Cardinal Plato) concerning the reclamation of the marshes, f. 20r
• fol. 21r — Accounts and records of the reclamation in Italian, f. 21r
• fol. 28r — Istoria antica, e moderna, f. 28r
• fol. 95r — Memorie dell'antico, e presente stato delle Paludi Pontine, f. 95r
• fol. 145r — Pianta delle Paludi Pontine, f. 145r
• fol. 146r — Unidentified printed work in Italian and Latin against the cutting of the forests of Cisterna and Sermoneta, between the Pontine Marshes and Rome, f. 146r
• fol. 170r — Unidentified printed collection of 7 15th-century papal bulls in Latin concerning Cisterna and Sermoneta and 2 edicts in Italian concerning the cutting of forests, f. 170r
• fol. 176r — 2 printed works in Italian, containing reports and accounts concerning the delivery of water to Rome, f. 176r
• fol. 184r — Planta del nuovo aquedotto che conduce l'acqua civita vechia fabricato in parte sopra la ruuine dell'antico construtto da Traiano imperatore, f. 184r
• fol. 185r — Bando generale delli signori mastri di strade, f. 185r
• fol. 189v — Obligho di Pietro Antonio Leone, f. 189v
• fol. 191r — Romana taxae viarum: Resolutio, f. 191r
• fol. 197r — Nota dell'augumento fa? la tabella de casali, f. 197r
• fol. 200r — Street inspection reports, many signed by architects Pietro Andrea Bufalini Tomasso Zanoli, f. 200r
• fol. 214r — Letter from the residents of Strada Baccina to the Monsignor Presidente delle Strade, f. 214r
• fol. 216r — Letter in Latin from Petrus Grossus and Joseph Chiorrius to the Viarum Praesidi, f. 216r
• fol. 218r — Brief records of meetings held 11 June and 2 July 1686, f. 218r
• fol. 221r — Undated letter and summarium (accounts, latest date 1686) from Christoforo Cappellone to the Congregatione delle Strade, f. 221r
• fol. 233r — Editto che si nettano le case, cantine, e strade dall'acque, & immonditie del fiume, f. 233r
• fol. 234r — Manuscript document concerning the Maestri di Strade, f. 234r
• fol. 236r — Manuscript report concerning walls, f. 236r
• fol. 238r — Romana taxa extra Portam S. Ioannis in Laterano, f. 238r
• fol. 240r — Letter from Onofrio Colorossi to Pietro Mollini, Maestro delle Strade, f. 240r
• fol. 242r — Capitoli sopra lo spurgo della citta di Roma, f. 242r
• fol. 246r — Capitoli sopra l'appalto delle strade dentro Roma, f. 246r
• fol. 254r — Street inspection reports, f. 254r
• fol. 265r — Letter from the padroni delle vigne di Roma, f. 265r
• fol. 267r — Street inspection reports, f. 267r
• fol. 307r — Title page for Secondo ragionamento, f. 307r
• fol. 308r — Risposta al ragionamento di Monsignor Lambertini sopra il taglio delle macchie di Sermoneta, e Cisterna f. 308r
• fol. 333r — Printed map showing the Paludi Pontine, f. 333r
• fol. 334r — 4 printed Italian texts on Sermoneta and Cisterna, f. 334r
• fol. 353r — Memoriale [printed report in Italian concerning Sermoneta and Cisterna, f. 353r

Decorations

• fol. 145r — Map, f. 145r
• fol. 184r — Map, f. 184r
• fol. 333r — Map, f. 333r