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Title

Inventario della raccolta di libri ritrovata nell'eredità della Ch. M. del Signore Abbate Niccola Rossi, che con le stime di ciascuno volume si presenta agli Illustrissimi Signori Provveditori Residenti del Magistrato del Pupilli di Firenze, dai Signori Abbati Ferdinado Giovannucci e Francesco Saverio Lucchesi

Authors

• Giovannucci, Ferdinando
• Saverio Lucchesi, Francesco

Call number

Ms. Codex 262
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580877
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580877

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1785

Place

Rome

Summary

Contains the carefully compiled catalogs of 7,782 (falso 7.772) volumes of post-1500 printed books (f. 1-241 of vol. 1), with individual prices for all items and a total value of "scudi romani" 7,975.05; 1,307 incunable volumes (f. 242-290 of vol. 1), valued at sc. rom. 4,501.40; 415 manuscript codices, valued at sc. rom. 1,212.10. Each of the two volumes is notarized at the end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page of vol. 1 (f. 1r).
   
• Description of the manuscript from the Martin Breslauer catalog on file in the Library.
   
• The library of Rossi was actually sold during his lifetime to Bartolomeo Corsini and later became part of the Biblioteca Corsiniana in Rome.
   

Extent

2 v. (294, 160 leaves) : volume 1: 310 x 213 (240 x 134) mm. bound to 325 x 225 mm. ; volume 2: 268 x 197 (252 x 73) mm. bound to 285 x 210 mm

Foliation

Vol. 1: Paper, [1], 2-291, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Vol. 2: Paper, i + 160 + i; [1-160]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold by Martin Breslauer (London), 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Book collectors--Italy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Book catalogs
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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