Details

Subjects:

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Sigismund I, King of Poland, 1467-1548.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Holy Roman Empire.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Poland.
Catholic Church.
Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy) -- Early works to 1800.
Council of Trent.
International relations.
Poland.
Germany.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Seven items are in Latin, four items in Italian.

Summary:

Seventeenth-century copies of 11 ambassadorial instructions for legations to Emperor Charles V; to his brother Ferdinand, King Sigismund I of Poland; and to the delegates to the Council of Trent, dated 1534-1548. Most are related to Germany, a few to Spain. Instructions are directed to Cardinal Farnese, to abbate Girolamo Martinengo, to Cardinal Contareno, and others.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 134; 23-28, 31-44, 47-52, 55-70, 73-94, 97-112, 115-137, 141-152, 155-160, 163-169, 173-177, contemporary foliation in ink, [1-134], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; missing folios between each item, final folio numbered 178 is blank.
Script: Written in one hand in a cursive script; one item (f. 73-94) may be in a second hand; a few marginal notes are in another hand.
Binding: Contemporary boards, parchment removed from spine, label removed from upper cover.
Origin: Written in Italy[?] in the 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1963.

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. 229 (Ms. Lea 401).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 668

Contributor:

Martinengo, Girolamo, 1504-1569.
Farnese, Cardinal.
Contareno, Cardinal.
Catholic Church. Apostolic Nunciature (Holy Roman Empire)

OCLC:

155985358