Details

Subjects:

Nobility.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.
Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1508-1797.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Italian -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

A list of all Venetian magistrates with their salaries, etc., followed by a complete list of the names of the patrician families of Venice.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 86; [i, 1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Title within decorative border. Extensive use of red for headings, etc. List of noble houses (f. 77r-84v) is entirely in red.
Binding: Contemporary colored paper boards. Cover badly worn and stained. First quire is completely loose.
Origin: Written in Venice, early 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Unidentified bookseller's description on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini, Lucca (inscription in ink, Hic liber est Josephi Martini Lucensis, f. i verso).
Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1960.

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. 116 (Ms. Italian 116).

Cited as:

Zucchetta (Ms. Codex 358). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155964478