Details

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Genealogies (histories)
Letters.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with some documents in Latin.

Summary:

Copies of documents establishing Vincenzo Colonna's genealogy (he was a member of the Sicilian-Neapolitan branch of the family) including copies of letters of contemporaries Francesco d'Este, Modena; Francesco Farnese, Parma; the Duke of Mantua, etc.; with notarization, testimonials, and the seal of Prince Philippus Hercolani at end. Index of documents on f. [ii recto-verso].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 30; [ii], 1-25, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, [1-30], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a clear cursive script by a single hand, with notarial documents at the end in two different hands.
Binding: Gold-stamped paper, depicting hunter, hounds, stag, and hare.
Origin: Written in Venice, 1706 (f. 27r).
Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in Library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1958.
Formerly owned by Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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. 157 (Ms. Lea 44).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 540

Contributor:

Colonna, Vincenzo, 1787-1867.
Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989, former owner.

OCLC:

155965631