Details

Other Title:

Nel dover riferire alla Serenità Vostra lo stato, in che hò lasciato la francia al partirmi da quell' Ambasciaria.

Subjects:

Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- 17th century.
Ambassadors.
France -- History -- Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France.
History.
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- France -- 17th century.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.
Italy -- Venice.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Account by Nicolò Morosini of his experiences as Venetian ambassador to France at the court of Louis XIV.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (f. i recto).
Spine title: Relatione della corte di Francia dell' anno 1655.
Incipit: Serenissimo Principe: Nel dover riferire alla Serenità Vostra lo stato, in che hò lasciato la francia al partirmi da quell' Ambasciaria ... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 94; [ii], 1-91, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Cover splitting at spine. Oxidation of ink, causing severe damage on some folios. Edges of many leaves frayed, worn and split.
Origin: Written in Venice, 1655 (f. ii recto).

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: "Ex m.s. Caes. Card. Rasponi" (note on title page).
Accessioned, 1960.

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. 113 (Ms. Italian 100).
Not in: Antonibon, Francesca. Le relazioni a stampa di ambasciatori veneti (Padova, Tipografia del seminario, 1939).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 343

OCLC:

155964435