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

Title

Opinione

Authors

• Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623,

Call number

Ms. Codex 559
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486512
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486512

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1650

Place

Italy

Summary

Work on the governance of Venice, first published in 1681 under title: Opinione del padre Paolo servita, come debba governarsi la republica veneziana per haverse il perpetuo dominio.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 2r).
   
• Same text as UPenn Ms. Codex 499.
   

Extent

62 leaves : 198 x 145 (173 x 90) mm. bound to 206 x 148 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 62 + ii (contemporary paper); [1-62]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Inscription on upper cover: "All' Illustrissimo Borgondio Ambasciatore dell'illustrissima città di Brescia mio fratre carissimo."
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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