Details

Subjects:

Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Political science.

Local subjects:

Tacitus, Cornelius. (search)

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with some Latin headings and quotations.

Contents:

1. p.2-68: Considerationi di Traiano Boccalini Romano sopra la vita di Giulio Agricola.
2. p.73-end: Osserviationi di Traiano Boccalini sopra'l primo libro dell'Historia di Gaio Cornelis Tacito.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 4r).
Foliation: Paper, 244; [1-244]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary pagination in ink, 1-73, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script. Bibliographic note in a later hand (f. 1v).
Binding: Contemporary boards, top section of spine has been torn away. There is evidence of water damage on the upper quarter of the volume f. 1-166. Worm damage on covers and end leaves.
Origin: Written in Italy, 24 June 1698 (f. 37v).

Penn Provenance:

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. 124 (Ms. Italian 159).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 47

OCLC:

155962917