Details

Subjects:

Montcada family.
Nobility -- Italy -- Sicily -- Genealogy.
Nobility.
Sicily (Italy) -- History.
Italy -- Sicily.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Genealogies (histories)
Family histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Genealogy.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Genealogies of the Moncadi family of Sicily and Spain, with numerous tables and diagrams, up to Ferdinando de Moncada, a member of the Sicilian branch of the family and likely the commissioner of the manuscript.

Contents:

1. f.3r-3v: Introdutione.
2. f.4r-30r: Linea retta della descendenza de' Moncadi sin'a D. Ferdinando de Moncada, duca di San Giovanni, conte di Camerata, &c. [followed by diagrams and tables].
3. f.32r-99v: Ragvaglio genealogico dell'inclita stirpe de Moncadi.
4. f.101r-103r: Sangue reale trasfuso dalli rè antichi nelle vene de Moncadi e all istessi restituito à gli attvali potentati d'Europa.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title for third work (f. 32r).
Foliation: Paper, 115; [1-115]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 27-29 long lines; text block outlined in ink, with notes between the outline of the text block and a larger block also outlined in ink.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Pen and ink decorations including coat of arms (f. 2r), genealogical tree (f. 4v-5r, detached), decorated title page with cherubs (f. 32r); emblem with foliate design, fruits, bird-like creature, and floating crown (f. 100r); numerous diagrams throughout.
Binding: 18th-century calf, with leather-stamped coat of arms tipped onto upper and lower covers (matching coat of arms on f. 2r).
Origin: Written in Camerata, Sicily, after 1695 (f. 98v).

Penn Provenance:

Commissioned by Ferdinando de Moncada.
Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Frank Hammond, 1953 (catalog 83, no. 363).

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. 154 (Ms. Lea 29).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 496.

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.
Moncada, Ferdinando de, patron.

OCLC:

155965367

Access Restriction:

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