Teatro di casa Carrafa, dove succintamente si vedono le dignità, titloli, honori, e grandezze, tanto temporali, come ecclesiastiche di essa casa, e famiglia, con le gloriose attioni, et ossequij alle serenissime corone d'Aragona, et imperialissime d'Austria / fabricato, e raccolto dal ... Dot[to]r Aurelio Ricci.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Ricci, Aurelio.

Contributor:

• Carafa, Decio, 1556-1626, dedicatee.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Carafa family.
• Naples (Italy)--History--1503-1734.
• Naples (Kingdom)--History--Spanish rule, 1442-1707.
• Naples (Kingdom).
• History.

Genre:

• Codices.
• Manuscripts, Italian.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Accessioned, 1952.

Physical Description:

36 leaves : paper, color coat of arms ; 190 x 125 (144 x 100) mm 201 x 132 mm

Place of Publication:

[Naples?], [between 1600 and 1699]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Work about members of the Carafa family. Dedicated to Cardinal Decio Carafa, Archbishop of Naples (f. 1r). Contains introductory verses by Giulio Cesare Cortese (f. 4r).

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from f. 1r.
• Foliation: Paper, i + 36 + i; [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
• Script: Written in a single calligraphic hand.
• Decoration: Coat of arms of Cardinal Carafa, printed in red and black, pasted onto the page (f. 1r).
• Binding: Vellum, probably later than the text. Various stains and smudges. Some holes in f. 36.
• Origin: Written in Naples[?] in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 117 (Ms. Italian 122).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 364

Contains:

Cortese, Giulio Cesare, 1571-1628.

OCLC:

155964501