Details

Subjects:

Papal States -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800.
Italy -- History -- 16th century.
Italy.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

A document of the Curia Romana, the "relatione" probably deals with the court of Sixtus V; index mentions Cardinals Diaconi, Vescovi, and Preti, among others. Bound with Raccolta d'alcuni avvertimenti politici di Monsignore [Marsilio?] Landriani [legate to France, 1591?].

Contents:

1. i recto-iv verso: Introduction, index, and poem "In lode della SS. Trinità".
2. f.1r-85v: Del sommo Pontifici, includes Ordine dell precedenze...di Papa Guilio fatto l'anno 1504 (f. 73r-76r).
3. f.86-150r: Raccolta d'alcuni avvertimenti politici di Monsig[nore] Landriani.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 154; iv, 1-70, 72-150, 153; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Unnumbered folio between 85 and 86 missing, with loss of text. Numbered folios 71, 151, and 152 missing, with no loss of text.
Script: Written in a cursive script by two different hands, with the final folio in a third hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum with remnants of leather ties; lower cover torn.
Origin: Written in Italy, early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Antonio Ubaldini (signature, inside lower cover).
Accessioned, 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 148).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 389

Contributor:

Ubaldini, Antonio, former owner.

OCLC:

155967670