Details

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Shrines -- Italy -- Loreto.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Shrines -- Italy -- Loreto -- Early works to 1800.
Shrines.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Italy -- Loreto.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Primarily a brief chronicle of the origin and development of the holy shrine of Loreto, including references to the Turks.

Contents:

1. f.1r-37v: Breve compendio del viaggio alla Santa Casa di Loreto
2. f.38r-45v: Esortatione ad andare in pellegrinaggio alla S[an]ta Casa di Loreto.
3. f.46r-47r: Aviso al christiano pellegrino.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 50; [ii], 1-38, [39-48]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy between 1600 and 1650 (Zacour-Hirsch).
The relationship between this manuscript and Cesare Franciotti's much more extensive Viaggio ... distinto in dodeci giornate ..., printed in 1616 has not been investigated.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1973.

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), pp. 24-25 (Ms. Lea 596).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 704

OCLC:

212081027