Details

Subjects:

Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Political science.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with Latin quotations throughout, plus some French.

Summary:

Didactic work of political maxims and exempla from various sources, mostly Latin, some French. The Latin sources (Cicero, Tacitus, Sallust, etc.) are usually noted, are cited in Latin, then translated into Italian. Text is preceded by a detailed index, alphabetized by topic.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, 304; [lxxxii], 1-140, 142-524, [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, upper cover cut in 5 places.
Origin: Written in Lombardy, 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 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. 131 (Ms. Italian 190).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 419

OCLC:

155968845