Details

Other Title:

Teatro di Casa Carafa.

Subjects:

Joanna II, Queen of Naples, 1371-1435.
Ladislao, King of Naples, 1377-1414.
Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- Anjou dynasty, 1268-1442.
Naples (Kingdom).
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Biographies (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Life of King Ladislao of Naples ("parte prima;" p. 1-74) and of Queen Giovanna II of Naples ("parte seconda;" p. 76-153).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 84 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-75, [i], 76-91, 91-153, [154-166]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand, with marginal glosses possibly in a second hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Cover almost completely detached at inside lower hinge. A few wormholes in spine. Lower edge of spine worn. Some stains on paper; edges of some folios slightly worn and frayed.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Spine label in two parts. Legend of top part very hard to read after "Vita ..." Lower part reads, "Teatro di Casa Carafa."

Penn Provenance:

Bookplate inside upper cover, "Ex libris Marchionis Salse;" bookplate inside upper cover with coat of arms and the legend, "Comme je fus."
Sold by Joseph, 1952.

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. 97 (Ms. Italian 25).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 267

OCLC:

155964224