Details

Subjects:

Small libraries -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Classical literature -- Early works to 1800.
Classical literature.
Small libraries.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Book catalogs.
Excerpts.
Drawings (visual works)
Manuscripts.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Catalog of a small library, mostly of classical works, and lists of literary and historical information.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from cover and first section caption heading (f. 5r).
Foliation: Paper, 65; [1-65]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Red used for initials, headings, and borders in some lists; gold used for dedication and the title and first entry of some lists.
Binding: Contemporary paper.
Origin: Written in the 17th century, probably in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch).
Pen and ink dedication page (f. 13r), and vignettes throughout.
Dedicated to Franciscus Vitelius, archbishop of Thessalonica and apostolic nuncio to Venice (f. 13r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Franciscus Mancini (f. 1r).
Acquired, 1958.

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. 28 (Ms. Latin 123).

Contributor:

Vitelius, Franciscus, dedicatee.
Mancini, Franciscus, former owner.

OCLC:

225076877