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

Title

Instruttioni e lettere dell' illustrissimo et reverendissimo signore Don Carlo Cardinale Carafa, nipote di Papa Paolo IV, concernenti le controversie e li dispareri con la corona di Spagna cioè Filippo II e Carlo V con il sudetto pontifice massimo

Authors

• Carafa, Carlo, ca. 1517-1561

Other related names

• Gentili, Antonio-Saverio, 1681-1753, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 385
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486546
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486546

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1650

Place

Italy

Summary

17th-century copy of 71 instructions, dispatches, and letters dated between August 1555 and March 1563.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Oxidation of ink throughout, but text is legible.
   

Extent

140 leaves : 257 x 184 (210 x 122) mm. bound to 263 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 139 + i (contemporary paper); [i], 1-137, [138]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Cardinal Antonio Saverio Gentili (ownership stamp on title page).
   
• Purchased, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Spain

Genres

• Codices
• Dispatches
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner stamp, f. 1r