Details

Subjects:

Accademia degli Innominati.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Records of the Accademia degli Innominati, of Siena, from 10 December 1789 to 2 June 1847. All entries signed for, or by, the secretaries of the Accademia.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto). Spine title: Fasti della Accademia degli Innominati.
Foliation: Paper, i + 157 + i; [i], 1-156; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive scripts by various hands.
Decoration: Some use of red on title page (f. i recto).
Binding: 19th-century gilt calf. Cover shows signs of damage due to extensive wear, especially at edges and spine. Some quires and leaves loose. Edges of some leaves frayed. A few leaves have had portions cut off. On some pages smaller sheets have been pasted in. Various stains and smudges.
Origin: Written in Siena from 1789 (f. 1r ) to 1847 (f. 154v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Luigi Lazzeri, Siena (owner's stamp, f. i recto).
Accessioned, 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. 103 (Ms. Italian 56).
For information about the Accademia degli Innominati, cf.: Maylender, M. Storia delle accademie d'Italia (Bologna, 1929), vol. III, p. 298: "Accademia degli Innominati--Seconda--Siena."

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 298

OCLC:

155964303