Details

Subjects:

Toledo, Pedro de, 1484-1553.
Naples (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Chronicle of Naples under the governorship of Pietro Toledo (1532-1555) in four parts. Preceded by "Ragionamento, e discorso di quello che successe al regno di Napoli à Baroni, per l'andata che fece Gio. Paolo Coraggio mandato alla Corte dell'Imperatore Carlo V. in tempo era Luogotenente del Regno il Cardinal Colonna" (f. 1r-20v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page, pasted in after binding (f. iii recto).
Foliation: Paper, iii (near-contemporary paper) + 98; contemporary foliation in ink, 1-78, beginning on f. 24, modern foliation in pencil, [1-98], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th or early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H. P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1962.

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. 124 (Ms. Italian 160).
Text differs from edition printed in 1769 in vol. 6 of G. Gravier's Raccolta.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 48

Contributor:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155962921