Details

Subjects:

Venice.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century.
International relations.
History.
Ambassadors.
Germany -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Italy -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Venice.
Germany.
Italy.
Italy -- Venice.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Contents:

1. f.i, 1r-89r: Relatione istorica de costumi, forze, e governo civile della Germania, e dell'Italia... / [Federico Badoer]
2. f.90r-155v: Relatione di N. N., ambasciatore Veneto appresso Ferdinando, re de Romani / [Lorenzo Contarini]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from title page for predominant work (f. i recto).
Foliation: Paper, i (19th-century?) + 156 + i (19th-century?); [i, 1], 2-155; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on each leaf, lower right verso.
Layout: Written in 28 long lines, with running titles at the top of the pages.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: 19th-century[?] half vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 5176, bookplate and inscription, inside upper cover).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1961.

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. 122 (Ms. Italian 146).

Publications about:

These texts were printed in E. Alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti (Florence, 1839-1863), ser. 1, I, 371 et seq. and III, 175 et seq.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 387

Contributor:

Cantarini, Lorenzo.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

155967465