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

Title

L'introduttione di Pietro Magno nell' antica republica Romana.

Authors

• Magno, Pietro, active 1572-1589

Other related names

• Gambara, Giovanni Francesco, 1533-1587, dedicatee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91126682)
• Carafa, Ottavio, dedicatee

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 350
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122630965
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qr4nq6s

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1625

Place

Rome, Italy

Summary

Account of the history of the Roman Republic, by Pietro Magno. Dedicated to Cardinal di Gambara at Rome, 20 December 1571 (f. 4v); preface addressed to Don Ottavio Carafa. An edition of this work was published in Rome in 1606 by L. Zannetti, edited by Ambrosio Lisci.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   
• Edges and spine of cover show wear. Many leaves stained, especially at outer edge.
   

Extent

123 leaves : 274 x 200 (188 x 133) mm bound to 280 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 123 + i (modern paper); [1-123]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Gilt morocco.

Layout

Written in 18 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand; another hand appears responsible for the pen trials (with content related to Roman history) on the last leaf (f. 123v).

Provenance

• Sold by Luigi Gonnelli & Figli (Florence?, Italy), 1954.
   

Subjects topical

• Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
• Rome (Empire)
• History

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Histories (literary works)
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 17th century
• History
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

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