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Title

Registro di lettere di monsignore archivescovo di Rossana che fu poi Papa Urbano Settimo della sua nunciatura di Spagna sotto Pio Quarto, Pio Quinto, e Gregorio Decimoterzo

Authors

• Castagna, Giovanni Battista
• Pius V, Pope, 1504-1572
• Charles Borromeo, Saint, 1538-1584
• Bonelli, Michele, 1541-1598
• Rusticucci, Geronimo, 1537?-1603

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 698
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212065952
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487487

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with a few copies in Latin and Spanish

Origin

Date

between 1572 and 1599

Place

Italy

Summary

Copies of diplomatic correspondence and other documents from Giovanni Battista Castagna (Archbishop of Rossano, later Pope Urban VII), to Cardinal Borromeo, to Cardinal Reomano, to Cardinal Alessandrino (Michele Bonelli), to Cardinal Rusticucci, to Monsignore Biglia (nuntio all'Imperatore) to and from King Philip II of Spain and a number of others, in chronological order dated September 1565-January 1569 (v. 1) and January 1569-September 1572 (v. 2), mostly from Madrid.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (v. 1, f. i recto).
   

Extent

2 v. (386, 420 leaves) : 298 x 218 (243 x 147) mm. bound to 299 x 218 mm

Foliation

V.1: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 386; [v], 1-380, [i]; V. 2: Paper, 420; [iv], 1-416; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, with complete title written on the spine of both volumes. Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink in sections of both volumes.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Abb. Francisci de Fucciis (v. 1, f. v recto); ownership stamp in v. 1 erased, in v. 2 cut out.
   
• Purchased, 1972.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Spain

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Church Fathers
• Theology
• Pontifical

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