Details

Subjects:

Gregory XIV, Pope, 1535-1591.
Popes -- Election -- Early works to 1800.
Cardinals.
Popes -- Election.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Treatise on the elections of the popes, particularly Pope Gregory XIV, but also Gregory XIII, Paul IV, Clement VIII, Leo XI, and Paul V.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Conclave cioè cum clave (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 41 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-40; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Signature A 37 on preliminary blank folio.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: 20th-century cloth. Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink with damage to paper, especially last two folios of the text.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1605, the year of the election of Pope Paul V.

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), Supplement A (2) Library Chronicle 36 (1970), p. 25 (Ms. Lea 432).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 676

OCLC:

155985369