Registro di lettere di mons[igno]re archivescovo di Rossana che fu poi Papa Urbano Settimo della sua nunciatura di Spagna sotto Pio Quarto, Pio Quinto, e Gregorio Decimoterzo.
- Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1572 and 1599]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
2 volumes (386, 420 leaves) : paper ; 298 x 218 (243 x 147) mm bound to 299 x 218 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Subjects:
- Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585.
Pius IV, Pope, 1499-1565.
Urban VII, Pope, 1521-1590.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Spain.
Catholic Church.
International relations.
Spain -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
Spain. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance. - Language:
- Italian, with a few copies in Latin and Spanish.
- Summary:
- Copies of diplomatic correspondence and other documents from Giovanni Battista Castagna (Archbishop of Rossano, later Pope Urban VII), to Cardinal Borromeo, to Cardinal Reomano, to Cardinal Alessandrino (Michele Bonelli), to Cardinal Rusticucci, to Monsignore Biglia (nuntio all'Imperatore) to and from King Philip II of Spain and a number of others, in chronological order dated September 1565-January 1569 (v. 1) and January 1569-September 1572 (v. 2), mostly from Madrid.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (v. 1, f. i recto).
Foliation: V.1: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 386; [v], 1-380, [i]; V. 2: Paper, 420; [iv], 1-416; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, with complete title written on the spine of both volumes. Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink in sections of both volumes.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th century. - Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Abb. Francisci de Fucciis (v. 1, f. v recto); ownership stamp in v. 1 erased, in v. 2 cut out.
Purchased, 1972. - 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 B, Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 22 (Ms. Lea 589).
Cursory comparison with Serrano, Luciano, ed. Correspondencia diplomatica entre EspanĚa e la Santa Sede durante el pontificado de S. Pio V (Madrid, 1914), indicates Ms. Codex 698 contains letters not published there. - Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 698
- Contributor:
- Pius V, Pope, 1504-1572.
Charles Borromeo, Saint, 1538-1584.
Bonelli, Michele, 1541-1598.
Rusticucci, Geronimo, 1537?-1603. - OCLC:
- 212065973