Details

Subjects:

Jews -- History -- Rebellion, 66-73.
France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.
France.
History.
Florence (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Excerpts.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Notes and excerpts from historical works.

Contents:

1. f.11r-30r: Joseph Flavius. Dall' istoria...della guerra che ebbono i giudei co romani.
2. f.47r-73r: Enrico Caterino Davila. Dall 'istoria...Delle guerre civili di Francia.
3. f.99r-103r: Donato Giannotti. Dal Giannotti nel libro Della republica fiorentina.
4. f.117-132v: Giovanni Villani. Da Giovanni Villani nelle Cronache, cap. 38 [e lib. 6].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 142; [1-142]; modern foliation in pencil, upper outer corner, many blank folios between sections of text.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand with contemporary corrections.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy, 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1956.

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. 166-167 (Ms. Lea 90).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 556

Contains:

Josephus, Flavius. De bello Judaico.
Davila, Arrigo Caterino, 1576-1631. Historia delle guerre civili di Francia.
Giannotti, Donato, 1492-1573. Della repubblica fiorentina.
Villani, Giovanni, approximately 1275-1348. Croniche.

OCLC:

209562991