Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Diocese of Vác (Hungary).
International relations.
Church history.
Hungary -- Church history -- 17th century.
Hungary -- History -- Turkish occupation, 1526-1699.
Hungary.
History.
Hungary -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Hungary.
Turkey.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Maps (documents)
Pictorial maps.
Reports.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

A report on the bishopric of Vác between 1669 and 1675, during which time it was under Turkish occupation, including a map of the bishopric and discussion of clandestine masses, a visit under Turkish safe-conduct, and congregation statistics.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and author from caption heading (f. 1r); date from discussion of "anni modo currentis 1675" (f. 4v and 5r).
Incipit: In fine anni 1669 Sua Majestas Sacerrima per promotium ad episcopatum Agriensem ... (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (folded map attached inside front cover) + i (contemporary paper) + 20 + i (contemporary paper); 1¹² 2⁸; modern foliation in pencil. A bifolium in a very similar hand with passages from the last few leaves is laid in at the end of the work.
Layout: Written in 26-28 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in an Italian chancery hand (bookseller's description).
Decoration: Pictorial map (590 x 437 mm) in watercolor shows the bishopric with its western border marked by the Danube River, with cities and churches indicated by small drawings.
Binding: 18th-century red silk over paper boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Austria (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1675.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1959.

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. 29 (Ms. Latin 126).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1021.

OCLC:

155927731

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