Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church.
Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy) -- Early works to 1800.
Council of Trent.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Spain.
International relations.
Spain -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
Spain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, Latin, and Spanish.

Summary:

Collection of letters and documents related to the Council of Trent.

Contents:

1. f.1r-110v: Lettere degli signori legati dal concilio...all'ill[ustrissi]mo et r[everendissi]mo card[ina]l Borromeo nel 1562 et 1563.
2. f.112r-124v: Scrittura data dal amb[asciat]ore di Francia et da Mons. d'Oyssel al re cat[toli]co [Philip II] die prima maii 1563, with Riposta del re cat[toli]co...die 9 maii 1563, [the name Gonçalo Perez, the king's secretary, at the end of each document], in Spanish.
3. f.125r-128v: Scrittura data dal archivesc[o] Granato [Pedro Guerrero] et Braga à li ssri. legati, et mandata da li ssri. legati die Augusti 1562, in Latin.
4. f.129r-134v: Instrutt[ion]e à Mons. di Vintimiglia [Carlo Visconti] per la corte di Spagna [31 Oct. 1563], signed Carolus Card[ina]lis Borromeus (f. 132v).
5. f.135r-161v: Proposita et postulata ab oratoribus Christiani regis pro reformatione ecclesiae.
6. f.165r-170v: Copy of letter without indication of author or addressee, Trento, 1 March 1563, in Italian.
7. f.171r-186r: Articulus primus [-xxxiv], each with responsio legatorum, and responsio cardinalium.
8. f.187r-193v: Text of 13 proposals with responses, incipit: Gravantur etiam maxime pontifices.
9. f.195r-212r: Instructione del rey cat[toli]co à Don Luis d'Avila para Roma sobre los negoccios del concilio [name G. Perez at end], in Spanish, Madrid, 30 Nov. 1562.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, 212; [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script by at least 5 different hands, perhaps at different dates after 1563, in Italy [etc.?]. Item 2 was folded, with address on outside leaf.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Upper cover and spine pulling away from text block. Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink on some folios, with perforations of leaves.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1563.

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 (5), Library Chronicle, p. 97-98 (Ms. Lea 578).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 678.

Contributor:

Charles Borromeo, Saint, 1538-1584.
Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.
Guerrero, Pedro, 1501-1576.
Visconti, Carlo, 1523-1565.
Perez, Gonçalo.
Avila, Luis d'.

OCLC:

155985375

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