Details

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian, French, and Latin.

Summary:

254 letters relating to the administration of Avignon, largely sent from Avignon by Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri, legate of Avignon 1670-1677 (f. 1-218); Carlo d'Anguisciola, Vice-Legate 1673-1676 (f. 219-251); Monsignor Giaconto Libelli, archbishop of Avignon 1675-1684; Monsignor Mustio Estense Giuseppe, papal nuncio; Michele Zaccharia and others to Michele Antonio Vibó, Abbot of Rivalta Torinese, governor of Carpentras and the Comtat Venaissin at the time of writing (under papal rule, 1664-1688), and later Archbishop of Turin. Letters discuss crime and the administration of justice, commerce, relations with the court of the Kingdom of Savoy in Turin, quarrels of the local nobility, and urban privileges, among other topics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + ii (modern paper) + 515 + i (modern paper); [1-515]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many hands.
Binding: Half calf. Some leaves have been folded to fit binding when shelved, causing damage to the edges; worm holes on a number of leaves. Spine and upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Avignon and Turin, 1674-1681.
Bookseller's description with genealogy of Michele Antonio Vibó is tipped inside front endleaf.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Bottega d'Erasmo catalog 54, item 225.
Purchased, 1958.

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 46 Italian and French).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 541.

Contributor:

Altieri, Paluzzo, 1623-1698.

OCLC:

155965830

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