Details

Other Title:

Introduttione nell'antica Repub. Romana.

Subjects:

Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
Rome (Empire).
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Histories (literary works)
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Account of the history of the Roman Republic, by Pietro Magno. Dedicated to Cardinal di Gambara at Rome, 20 December 1571 (f. 4v); preface addressed to Don Ottavio Carafa. An edition of this work was published in Rome in 1606 by L. Zannetti, edited by Ambrosio Lisci.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 123 + i (modern paper); [1-123]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 18 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand; another hand appears responsible for the pen trials (with content related to Roman history) on the last leaf (f. 123v).
Binding: Gilt morocco.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch date of early 16th century is incorrect).
Edges and spine of cover show wear. Many leaves stained, especially at outer edge.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Luigi Gonnelli & Figli (Florence?, Italy), 1954.

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. 115 (Ms. Italian 108).
Listed in Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Iter italicum (London: Warburg Institute, 1990), volume 5, p. 376 (Ital. 108).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 350.

Contributor:

Gambara, Giovanni Francesco, 1533-1587, dedicatee.
Carafa, Ottavio, dedicatee.

OCLC:

155964459