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

Title

De republica Veneta

Authors

• Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542

Other related names

• Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869, former owner
• Morbio, Carlo, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 866
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155861022
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178059

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1525 and 1575

Place

Italy

Summary

A work in five books on the history and government of Venice.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: Saepenumero animadverti complures advenas prudentas homines, nec bonorum artium ignaros, qui cum primum Venetias venissent...
   
• Explicit: Si enim quippiam bonum a Deo immortali hominibus provenire credibile ist, hoc praecipue divinitus Venetae urbi obtigisse persuasissimum cuilibet esse debet. Libri quinti et totius operis finis.
   
• Moderate oxidation of ink, books 1-3, a few folios illegible.
   

Extent

92 leaves : 201 x 142 (149 x 98) mm. bound to 209 x 142 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 92 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-90, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

20th-century quarter vellum.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines.

Script

Written in an italic script by a single hand, with contemporary or near contemporary marginal notes.

Provenance

• Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).
   
• Sold by Guillaume Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 282.
   
• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1957.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• History
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 22r — Manicule, f. 22r
• fol. 51r — Manicule, f. 51r
• fol. 54r — Manicule, f. 54r
• fol. 56v — Manicule, f. 56v
• fol. 58v — Manicule, f. 58v
• fol. 66r — Manicule, f. 66r
• fol. 77v — Manicule, f. 77v
• fol. 83r — Manicule, f. 83r
• fol. 89v — Manicule, f. 89v