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

Title

Reports, letters, discourses and treaties

Authors

• Vannozzi, Bonifazio
• Caetani, Enrico, 1550-1599
• Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
• Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612
• Bianchetti, Lorenzo
• Tamasci, Joan

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 679
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615127
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487465

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1597-ca. 1606

Place

Italy

Summary

Comprised of two parts: A. Copies of letters and other documents from and to Bonifazio Vannozzi, secretary to papal legate Cardinal Caetani, regarding negotiations in Poland in 1596-1597, with the aim of creating a united front of Poland and the Habsburg monarchy against the Turks. Vanozzi acted as official recorder and it is likely that this part was written by him or under his direct supervision (according to Zacour-Hirsch). B. A Venetia...in two books.

Notes

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

Extent

227 leaves : 275 x 205 mm. bound to 284 x 224 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 225; [ii], [1-225]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. 18th-century index added at front.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum.

Script

Written in a cursive script by two different hands.

Provenance

• Guilford Coll. 288 [corrected to 289]; Sir Thomas Phillips ms. 7637.
   
• Purchased.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Poland
• Astrology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Reports
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Astrology
• Italy
• Paper
• Christian

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