Details

Subjects:

Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623. Historia della sacra inquisitione.
Inquisition -- Italy -- Venice -- Early works to 1800.
Inquisition.
Italy -- Venice.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Italian -- 17th century.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Albizzi's response to Paolo Sarpi's history of the Inquisition was published anonymously, this copy lacks the index found in the second edition, and therefore may be a copy of the first edition.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Pagination: Paper, 370; [x], 1-202, 204-408, 408-549, 560-589, 591-657, [xliv]; contemporary pagination in ink, [x, 1-730]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with notes in a second hand (p. 725-726).
Binding: Green-stained contemporary parchment. Moderate oxidation of ink throughout.
Origin: Written in Italy, 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, 1651-1737 (signature, p. i; stamp, p. 1).
Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his ms. 5318 (note, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Andre de Coppet (New York).
Offered for sale at Sotheby's as part of the collection of the late Andre de Coppet, Part VI, 28-29 May 1956, lot 1562.
Offered for sale at Sotheby's, 6-8 July 1959, lot 765; purchased by Maggs (London).
Sold by Maggs (London), 1959.

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. 168 (Ms. Lea 96).
For attribution to Francesco Albizzi, see G. Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime.

Cited as:

Francesco Albizzi, Riposta all' historia della sacra inquisitione (Ms. Codex 561). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Imperiali, Giuseppe Renato, 1651-1737, former owner.
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
De Coppet, Andre, 1892-1953, former owner.

OCLC:

155966368