Details

Subjects:

Jesuits -- Missions -- France.
Jesuits.
Almshouses -- Italy -- 17th century.
Almshouses.
Missions.
Italy.
France.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, translated from a French text.

Summary:

Treatise on methods to establish general hospitals in the Kingdom of France, according to the method of Father Chaurand, missionary of the company of Jesus. Also includes a table of contents (f. 47r-48r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Incipit: Avvertimento al Lettore. Il re avendo ordinato ... 1662.
Foliation: Paper, 50; [i], 1-48, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary boards, with letters D C on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Savoie after 1690.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1969.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 14 (Ms. Italian 253).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 476

Contributor:

Chaurand, Honoré, Father, 1615-1697.

OCLC:

155964887