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Congiura de' baroni.

Format/Description:
Manuscript
193 leaves : paper ; 272 x 194 (222 x 140) mm bound to 286 x 210 mm
Production:
[Italy], 1731.
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Subjects:
Naples (Kingdom) -- History.
Naples (Kingdom).
History.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian, with some Latin.
Summary:
Manuscript copy, in an eighteenth-century Italian hand, of the trial of the barons who conspired against Ferdinand I, King of Naples, in 1485 and 1486. The first document describes the trial of Antonello Petrucci and his two sons and that of Francisco Coppula, (p. 1-174). The second document is the text of the "Processo contra Pyrrum de Baulio, Antonellum de S. Severino, Johannem Carazolum" (p. 179-340). In addition there are 5 leaves of modern notes (3 folios tipped in plus 2 folios laid in) at the beginning; these notes, written by A.C. Howland (Henry C. Lea Professor at the University of Pennsylvania) discuss the publication history and sources for this manuscript.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from spine and from A.C. Howland manuscript notes tipped in at front endleaf.
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + v (modern paper) + 188 + i (contemporary paper); [xii], 1-340, [xxiv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, initialed F.S. (p. 340).
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy, 14 February 1731 (p. 340).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea, 1878 (signature, flyleaf i recto).
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. 186 (Ms. Lea 192 Italian).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 608
Contributor:
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.
Howland, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1869-1952.
OCLC:
155967405