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Title

Relazione dell'ambaschiatore Marco Foscarini fatta al Serenissimo Senato di Venezia nel ritorno della sua solemne ambaschiata dalla Real Corte di Torino

Authors

• Foscarini, Marco, 1695-1763

Call number

Ms. Codex 338
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580968
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580968

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1743

Place

Venice

Summary

Account by Marco Foscarini of his time as ambassador of Venice to the Royal Court of Turin.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: Solevano, Ser[enissi]mo Principe, gli antichi maggiori dopo ritornati dalle corte straniere non solo rappresentare l'attuale stato di esse ... (f. 2r).
   

Extent

109 leaves : 231 x 180 (160 x 138) mm. bound to 235 x 190 mm

Foliation

Paper, 109; [i], 1-107, [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Bifolium forming f. 67-68 is pulled completely loose from binding. Covers stained and very slightly warped. Various stains and smudges on leaves. Slight oxidation of ink on some leaves.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, possibly that of Foscarini (f. 106r-v).

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Venice (Republic : To 1797).--Senato
• Ambassadors--Italy--Venice--18th century

Genres

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

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