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

Title

Instruttioni diverse

Authors

• Paul III, Pope, 1468-1549
• Martinengo, Girolamo, 1504-1569
• Farnese, Cardinal
• Contareno, Cardinal

Call number

Ms. Codex 668
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2487454
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487454

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Seven items are in Latin, four items in Italian

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy?

Summary

Seventeenth-century copies of 11 ambassadorial instructions for legations to Emperor Charles V; to his brother Ferdinand, King Sigismund I of Poland; and to the delegates to the Council of Trent, dated 1534-1548. Most are related to Germany, a few to Spain. Instructions are directed to Cardinal Farnese, to abbate Girolamo Martinengo, to Cardinal Contareno, and others.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

134 leaves : 297 x 207 (203 x 125) mm. bound to 296 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, 134; 23-28, 31-44, 47-52, 55-70, 73-94, 97-112, 115-137, 141-152, 155-160, 163-169, 173-177, contemporary foliation in ink, [1-134], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; missing folios between each item, final folio numbered 178 is blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards, parchment removed from spine, label removed from upper cover.

Script

Written in one hand in a cursive script; one item (f. 73-94) may be in a second hand; a few marginal notes are in another hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Holy Roman Empire
• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Germany
• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Poland

Genres

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

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