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

Title

Biblioteca parva

Other related names

• Vitelius, Franciscus, dedicatee
• Mancini, Franciscus, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 870
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178095
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178095

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy?

Summary

Catalog of a small library, mostly of classical works, and lists of literary and historical information.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from cover and first section caption heading (f. 5r).
   
• Pen and ink dedication page (f. 13r), and vignettes throughout.
   
• Dedicated to Franciscus Vitelius, archbishop of Thessalonica and apostolic nuncio to Venice (f. 13r).
   

Extent

65 leaves : 116 x 61 mm. bound to 123 x 70 mm

Foliation

Paper, 65; [1-65]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper.

Decoration

Red used for initials, headings, and borders in some lists; gold used for dedication and the title and first entry of some lists.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Franciscus Mancini (f. 1r).
   
• Acquired, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Small libraries--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Classical literature--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Book catalogs
• Excerpts
• Drawings
• Manuscripts--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 5r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 5r
• fol. 13r — Illuminated border and dedication, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Drawing, Vase and flowers, f. 14r
• fol. 14r — Illuminated border, f. 14r
• fol. 16r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 16r
• fol. 19r — Drawing, Vase with flowers, f. 19r
• fol. 19r — Illuminated border, f. 19r
• fol. 24r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 24r
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 25r
• fol. 25r — Drawing, Vase with flowers, f. 25r
• fol. 39r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 39r
• fol. 39r — Illuminated border, f. 39r
• fol. 41r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 41r
• fol. 41r — Illuminated border, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Drawing, Flower, f. 41v
• fol. 43r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 43r
• fol. 43r — Illuminated border, f. 43r
• fol. 47r — Drawing, Flowers, f. 47r
• fol. 49r — Decorated headpiece, f. 49r
• fol. 61v — Drawing, Flowers, f. 61v
• fol. 62r — Drawing, Leaves, f. 62r