Details

Other Title:

Molte volte io son andato ricercando nell' animo mio.

Subjects:

Astrology.
Astrology -- Italy -- 18th century.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Discourse against astrology.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, 62; [1-62]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 17 long lines, with no right-hand margin on rectos and no gutter on versos.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch). Some oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century.
Incipit: Molte volte io son andato ricercando nell' animo mio ... (f. 4r).
Bookseller's description (Jacques Rosenthal) on file in Library.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly held in the libraries of the Albani family (no. 244) and Prince Baldassare Boncompagni of Rome (no. 144, label on cover).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (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. 111 (Ms. Italian 86).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 328

Contributor:

Boncompagni, Baldassarre, 1821-1894, former owner.

OCLC:

155964396