Details

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 17th century.
Italian literature.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian poetry -- 17th century.
Italian poetry.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Venice (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Engravings (prints)
Histories.
Orations.
Poems.
Watercolors.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian and Latin.

Summary:

Italian historical and literary miscellany. Also includes a table of contents in what appears to be a later hand (f. i recto).

Contents:

1. f.1r-13r: [Oratio] ad Carolum V ... post victoriam bello germanico partam ....
2. f.14r-32r: Vincenzo Coronelli. Rifflessioni del P. Coronelli sopra il danubio (includes engraved portrait of Charles VI by "Ant: Lucianus scul: Venetus Vienne 1719," f. 15; two folded manuscript maps of the Danube in watercolor, f. 17, 21; and double-page watercolor illustration for the construction of an embankment).
3. f.35r-49r: Sommario delle vere croniche di venetia, dated 24 August 1563.
3A. f.49v-56v: (not listed in table of contents) Poems in Italian and Latin, some apparently autograph (in draft with corrections), including one dedicated to Pope Paul V, "Canzon al ser. principe de Venetia" dated 8 May 1606.
4. f.57r-71v: Relatione di stato de Milano del ano 1589 (with evidence of at least two earlier foliations).
5. f.73r-81v: Carmina Amaltheorum. Poems beginning with "Maximiliano II, imperatori;" "Serenissimi Principis Memmi creatio" (in a different hand); "Carmen contra Hispanos" (in a third hand); "In vaccanza della sede apostolica per la morte di Clemente VIII, sonetto da Bastone;" poem on the death of Clement IX, with note at the end on the death of Clement X, dated 1676.
5A. f.83r-103r: Poems and miscellaneous items, including "Modo gentile per tinger di color rosso li vasi da Naranzeni;" poems dedicated to Cardinal Borromeo, to Pope Pius V, Cornelio Frangipano, and several dealing with Venetian affairs.
6. f.104r-108r: Torneo di cento dame genovesi.
7. f.111r-114v: Manifesto per la republica di Venezia in materia d'Iscochi.
8. f.117r-118r: Manifesta il re ... le regione dell'armi sue incaminate nel regno di napoli.
9. f.118v-119v: Ottavio Lavelli. Copy of letter to Cardinal Valiero, 18 March 1623.
9A. f.120r: Monitorium (jocular exhortation for a person named Longerioni).
9B. f.121r-121v: Louis XIV, King of France. Copy of a letter, 13 January 1657.
10. f.123r-124v: Viaggio di Edoardo, duca di Parma, a Fiorenza.
11. f.125r-125v: Giuseppe Moresino. Copia di lettera [al] serenissimo prencipe (no name of addressee, or place) Galleazza dal Moglietto ... 30 July 1656.
12. f.126r-128v: [Procurator Foscolo]. Officio del proc. Foscolo detto capitan general per la guerra di Candia (with poems on the victory of Venetians, 1655, by Giovanni Antonio Ceruti; naval victory over the Turks, 1656, by Lorenzo Marchello, etc.).
13. f.129r-130v: Ufficio fatto dal marchese Villa ... 1668.
14. f.131r-132v: Officio di Monsignor Aivoldi, nuncio apostolico in Venetia, 1675, and Narrativa della morte del Doge Nicolò Sagredo ..., 1676.
14A. f.133r-135v: Sopra il chiamar li banditi per la guerra di Candia contro'l turco (with other poems).
15. f.137r-138v: Bernardus Sylvester ... de cura et regimine rei familiaris, ideo in hoc apposita volumine, quod nonnulli eam a Sancto Bernardo esse compositam.
16. f.140r-143r: Inquisitio pro rebus magicalibus.
17. f.144r-152v: Rime varie del secolo XVII, (including Livius de Comitibus, "Carmen exile" for Venetian anatomists Florio de Bernardis and Antonio Molinetto, 1649; "Sopra l'intrepidezza dell'avocato Ambrosio Bellato," 1667; Per il sacco di Mantova del 1630"; Leonardo Querini, "Volge le spalle al mondo," etc.).
18. f.153r-155v: Oratio funebris doctoris Poccobelli in collegio d.d. physicorum venetiarum ... 1660.
19. f.157r-159v: [Oratio] venetiis in aedibus ... fratrum praedicatorum, 1674.
20. f.160r-161v: Descrittione del rinoceronte da bergamo.
21. f.162r-165v: Antonio Stillio. Paraphrases in septem seciones Aphorismorum [et in libros Prognasticorum] Hippocratis.
22. f.166r-168r: Discorso academico.
23. f.169r-170r: Gasparo Marino. Decreto di Zaccaria Valier[o], 1709.
23A. f.171r-174r: Corrispondenza delle monete, 1736.
24. f.175r-181r: Zaccaria Bondumievo. Revisione de conti (Venetian territories), 1626-1629.
24A. f.182r-189r: Copy of contracts concerning "capitulum sanctorum apostolorum," Venice, 1550-1581.
25. f.190r-215v: Della congiura di Bagiamonte Tiepolo ex libris ... Petri Pradenico [1310].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, i (18th-century paper?) + 217 + i (18th-century paper?); [i], [1-215], [i]; near-contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto. Evidence of earlier foliation or corners of folios torn off on many pages.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many hands, on different sizes of paper.
Decoration: 2 fold-out watercolor maps of the Danube (f. 17, 21); double-page watercolor illustration of construction of an embankment (f. 25v-26r); engraved portrait of Charles VI (f. 15r).
Binding: 18th-century vellum.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Purchased, 1962.

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. 215-217 (Ms. Lea 360).
On the authorship of item 15, see B. Hauréau, Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins (Paris, 1890), I, pp. 334-337

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 611.

Contributor:

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.

OCLC:

155967485

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