La zucchetta onde si contiene tutte le rettorie di questo ser[enissi]mo dom[ini]o et altre cosse notabili di tutta la città : con il cognome di tutte le casade nobili.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Nobility.
• Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.
• Venice (Italy)--Politics and government--1508-1797.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Italian -- 18th century.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini, Lucca (inscription in ink, Hic liber est Josephi Martini Lucensis, f. i verso).
• Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1960.

Physical Description:

86 leaves : paper ; 161 x 110 (122 x 67) mm bound to 169 x 115 mm

Place of Publication:

[Venice], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

A list of all Venetian magistrates with their salaries, etc., followed by a complete list of the names of the patrician families of Venice.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Foliation: Paper, 86; [i, 1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
• Decoration: Title within decorative border. Extensive use of red for headings, etc. List of noble houses (f. 77r-84v) is entirely in red.
• Binding: Contemporary colored paper boards. Cover badly worn and stained. First quire is completely loose.
• Origin: Written in Venice, early 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Unidentified bookseller's description on file in the Library.

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. 116 (Ms. Italian 116).

Cited as:

Zucchetta (Ms. Codex 358). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155964478