Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.
Catholic Church.
International relations.
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
Turkey.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

With unsigned dedication to Pope Pius V (f. 1r-2v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. iii recto).
Foliation: Paper, 44; [iii], 1-37, [iv]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Some oxidation of the ink.
Origin: Written in Rome, 27 July 1567 (f. 2v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps as part of ms. 6123.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 4 July 1972, lot 1827B.
Purchased on the Lessing and Edith Rosenwald Fund, 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. 23 (Ms. Lea 591).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 703

Contributor:

Pius V, Pope, 1504-1572, dedicatee.
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

155985445