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Title

Descrizzione geografica della Germania

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 374
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1581190
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581190

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Italy?, after 1794

Summary

Description of the geography of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with corrections and annotations throughout. Arranged by aristocratic, royal, or ecclesiastical territories, such as Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Bavaria, Württemberg, Cologne, Westphalia, and Brunswick; within each territory, arranged by dioceses and archdioceses such as Trento, Brixen, Salzburg, Freising, Regensburg, Passau, Konstanz, Augsburg, Bamberg, Worms, Basel, Münster, Osnabrück, and Hildesheim. Some oxidation and crystallization of ink.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (original torn off, but supplied in slightly later hand on repair, f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: La Germania si stende dal g.22m.30. circa di longitudine ... (f. 1r).
   

Extent

126 leaves : 288-297 x 200-212 cm. +

Foliation

Paper, i + 126 + i; [1-126]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right or upper center recto. A bifolium containing additions or corrections is pasted in (f. 92v).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (late 18th-century) parchment.

Script

Written in cursive script, mostly by one hand, but some annotations and leaves at the end (f. 123r-126v) may be in different hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 5170 (inscription, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1961.
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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