Details

Other Title:

Suele la esperiencia mostrarnos.

Subjects:

Masaniello, 1620-1647.
Naples (Italy) -- History -- 1503-1734.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish; translated from the Italian original by Padre Alonso de Flores, S.J., at the command of the Duke of Arcos (note, f. i recto, 1r).

Summary:

Account of the popular uprising against Spanish rule in Naples on 7 July, 1647, led by the fisherman Tommaso Aniello, called Masaniello.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Suele la esperiencia mostrarnos ... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 64 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-60, [61-63]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with corrections throughout, probably in the hand of the translator. Title page (f. i recto) is written in a different hand and appears to be a later addition.
Binding: Modern boards. Stains. Some cracking and splitting of the leaves at the edges. Paper slightly brittle. A few holes.
Origin: Written in Spain, ca. 1650.
The Duke of Arcos, at whose command Fr. Flores made this translation, was the Spanish viceroy in Naples.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, Munich, 1959.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 137 (Ms. Spanish 4).

Publications about:

This work does not appear ever to have been published.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 142

OCLC:

155962660