Details

Subjects:

Rossi, Nicola, 1711-1785 -- Library.
Rossi, Nicola, 1711-1785.
Book collectors -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Book collectors.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Book catalogs.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Contains the carefully compiled catalogs of 7,782 (falso 7.772) volumes of post-1500 printed books (f. 1-241 of vol. 1), with individual prices for all items and a total value of "scudi romani" 7,975.05; 1,307 incunable volumes (f. 242-290 of vol. 1), valued at sc. rom. 4,501.40; 415 manuscript codices, valued at sc. rom. 1,212.10. Each of the two volumes is notarized at the end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page of vol. 1 (f. 1r).
Foliation: Vol. 1: Paper, [1], 2-291, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Vol. 2: Paper, i + 160 + i; [1-160]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Red used in vol. 1 for headings and highlights.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written at Rome, 1785 (f. 1r of vol. 1).
Description of the manuscript from the Martin Breslauer catalog on file in the Library.
The library of Rossi was actually sold during his lifetime to Bartolomeo Corsini and later became part of the Biblioteca Corsiniana in Rome.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Martin Breslauer (London), 1953.

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. 96 (Ms. Italian 20).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 262

Contributor:

Giovannucci, Ferdinando.
Saverio Lucchesi, Francesco.

OCLC:

155964214