Details

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 957

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French and Italian.

Summary:

A critical portrait of individuals in the court of Saxony under Elector Frederick Augustus I and a genealogical work on 24 venerable Roman families.

Contents:

1. f.1r-123v: Portrait de la cour de Pologne / Johann Friedrich von Wolfframsdorff.
2. f.128r-198r: Breve ragguaglio delle famiglie più antiche e più nobile romane.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Collective title from title page of predominant work (f. 1r); author and date from Zacour-Hirsch.
Pagination: Paper, 126 (large size) + 71 (small size); large size, [i, 1], 2-243, [244]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; 3 large blank pages, 1 small blank page; small size, [i], 1-138, [139] in contemporary ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in single columns of 20 lines (1st work) and single columns of 19 lines (2nd work).
Binding: Contemporary half-calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in Saxony in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1961.

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), p. 68 (Ms. French 67).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 957

Constituent Unit:

UPenn Ms. Codex 957

OCLC:

155925620