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

Title

Collectanea opusculorum eruditorum et historicorum

Other related names

• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 611
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924865683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123407060
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486568

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

1563-ca. 1750

Place

Italy

Summary

Italian historical and literary miscellany. Also includes a table of contents in what appears to be a later hand (f. i recto).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

217 leaves : 330 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (18th-century paper?) + 217 + i (18th-century paper?); [i], [1-215], [i]; near-contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto. Evidence of earlier foliation or corners of folios torn off on many pages.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century vellum.

Decoration

2 fold-out watercolor maps of the Danube (f. 17, 21); double-page watercolor illustration of construction of an embankment (f. 25v-26r); engraved portrait of Charles VI (f. 15r).

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by many hands, on different sizes of paper.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Purchased, 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--17th century
• Italian literature--18th century
• Italian poetry--17th century
• Italian poetry--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Engravings
• Histories
• Orations
• Poems
• Watercolors
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• 18th century
• History
• Literature -- Poetry
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Engraving

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Oratio] ad Carolum V ... post victoriam bello germanico partam ..., f. 1r
• fol. 14r — Vincenzo Coronelli. Rifflessioni del P. Coronelli sopra il danubio, f. 14r
• fol. 35r — Sommario delle vere croniche di venetia, f. 35r
• fol. 49v — Poems in Italian and Latin, f. 49v
• fol. 57r — Relatione di stato de Milano del ano 1589, f. 57r
• fol. 73r — Carmina Amaltheorum, f. 73r
• fol. 83r — Poems and miscellaneous items, f. 83r
• fol. 104r — Torneo di cento dame genovesi, f. 104r
• fol. 111r — Manifesto per la republica di Venezia in materia d?Iscochi, f. 111r
• fol. 117r — Manifesta il re ... le regione dell?armi sue incaminate nel regno di napoli, f. 117r
• fol. 118v — Copy of letter to Cardinal Valiero, f. 118v
• fol. 120r — Monitorium, f. 120r
• fol. 121r — Copy of a letter, f. 121r
• fol. 123r — Viaggio di Edoardo, duca di Parma, a Fiorenza, f. 123r
• fol. 125r — Copia di lettera [al] serenissimo prencipe, f. 125r
• fol. 126r — Officio del proc. Foscolo detto capitan general per la guerra di Candia, f. 126r
• fol. 129r — Ufficio fatto dal marchese Villa ..., f. 129r
• fol. 131r — Officio di Monsignor Aivoldi, nuncio apostolico in Venetia, f. 131r
• fol. 133r — Sopra il chiamar li banditi per la guerra di Candia contro?l turco, f. 133r
• fol. 137r — Bernardus Sylvester ... de cura et regimine rei familiaris, f. 137r
• fol. 140r — Inquisitio pro rebus magicalibus, f. 140r
• fol. 144r — Rime varie del secolo XVII, f. 144r
• fol. 153r — Oratio funebris doctoris Poccobelli in collegio d.d. physicorum venetiarum..., f. 153r
• fol. 157r — [Oratio] venetiis in aedibus ... fratrum praedicatorum, f. 157r
• fol. 160r — Descrittione del rinoceronte da bergamo, f. 160r
• fol. 162r — Paraphrases in septem seciones Aphorismorum, f. 162r
• fol. 166r — Discorso academico, f. 166r
• fol. 169r — Gasparo Marino. Decreto di Zaccaria Valier[o], f. 169r
• fol. 171r — Corrispondenza delle monete, f. 171r
• fol. 175r — Revisione de conti, f. 175r
• fol. 190r — Della congiura di Bagiamonte Tiepolo ex libris..., f. 190r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 15r — Engraved portrait, f. 15r
• fol. 25v — Watercolor illustration, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Watercolor illustration, f. 26r