Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- 15th century.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- 16th century.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- 17th century.
Catholic Church.
International relations.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Mostly in Italian; some items in Latin.

Summary:

Volume containing copies of papal diplomatic instructions and other correspondence, mostly concerning the period 1570-1620. This volume appears to be volume four of a set. Concerns in particular the pontificates of Clement VIII and Paul V. Includes: instructions to Spain (1591); Hungary (1594-1596); Transylvania (1594-1595); Poland (1595); Republic of Venice (1607); Kingdom of Naples (1620); several relating to the war against the Turks (1570); negotiations with the King of Spain (1594-1595); and a letter of Cardinal Orsini about negotiations in France. Also includes a copy of a lengthy document dating to the pontificate of Eugene IV (d. 1447). Includes a table of contents at the beginning of the volume.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Instructiones written inside upper cover in pencil in a much later hand (this is also the first word of the heading of the first document).
Appears to be in a single cursive hand.
Foliation: Paper, 285; [iii], 1-281, [282]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Cover worn and split in places. Tom. iiii written on upper spine. Inside hinges weak. Various smudges and stains. A few indications of worm damage. Some damage to paper due to oxidation of ink.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1620 (f. 274v).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by L. Santacroce (stamp, f. ii recto).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1957.

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. 102 (Ms. Italian 46).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 288

Contributor:

Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447.
Clement VIII, Pope, 1536-1605.
Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.

OCLC:

155964275