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Title

Genealogia discendenza del ramo del Marchese Don Vincenzo Colonna, principiandola con più certa notizia dall'anno 950...

Authors

• Colonna family
• Colonna, Vincenzo

Other related names

• Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 540
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486485
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486485

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with some documents in Latin

Origin

Date

1706

Place

Venice

Summary

Copies of documents establishing Vincenzo Colonna's genealogy (he was a member of the Sicilian-Neapolitan branch of the family) including copies of letters of contemporaries Francesco d'Este, Modena; Francesco Farnese, Parma; the Duke of Mantua, etc.; with notarization, testimonials, and the seal of Prince Philippus Hercolani at end. Index of documents on f. [ii recto-verso].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in Library.
   

Extent

30 leaves : 283 x 203 (243 x 180) mm. bound to 298 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, 30; [ii], 1-25, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, [1-30], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Gold-stamped paper, depicting hunter, hounds, stag, and hare.

Script

Written in a clear cursive script by a single hand, with notarial documents at the end in two different hands.

Provenance

• Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1958.
   
• Formerly owned by Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Genres

• Codices
• Genealogies
• Letters
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover