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De re[publi]ca Veneta / R[everendissi]mi D[omini] Gasp[aro] Contareni Car[dina]lis.

Author/Creator:
Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542.
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1525 and 1575]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
92 leaves : paper ; 201 x 142 (149 x 98) mm bound to 209 x 142 mm
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Subjects:
Venice (Italy) -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
A work in five books on the history and government of Venice.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: Saepenumero animadverti complures advenas prudentas homines, nec bonorum artium ignaros, qui cum primum Venetias venissent...
Explicit: Si enim quippiam bonum a Deo immortali hominibus provenire credibile ist, hoc praecipue divinitus Venetae urbi obtigisse persuasissimum cuilibet esse debet. Libri quinti et totius operis finis.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 92 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-90, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand, with contemporary or near contemporary marginal notes.
Binding: 20th-century quarter vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Moderate oxidation of ink, books 1-3, a few folios illegible.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).
Sold by Guillaume Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 282.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1957.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 23 (Ms. Latin 104).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 866
Contributor:
Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869, former owner.
Morbio, Carlo, former owner.
OCLC:
155918944