Details

Other Title:

Inquisizione di Napoli

Subjects:

Inquisition -- Italy -- Naples -- Early works to 1800.
Inquisition.
Italy -- Naples.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Hagiographies (works)
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with headings and quotations in Latin, some quotations in Greek and French; final 4 leaves in Latin.

Summary:

Account of the practice of the Inquisition in Naples, with 4 leaves at the end in Latin with brief lives of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Elizabeth of Hungary, taken from the work of Bartholomew of Trent.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 353 + i (contemporary paper); [iii, 1-350]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with final 4 leaves in a second hand.
Decoration: Title page in red and gold (f. 1r); heading in red and gold with calligraphic initial (f. 2r); initials in alternating red or gold paint throughout.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy, last decade of 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1956.

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. 168 (Ms. Lea 98 Italian).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 563

Contributor:

Bartolomeo, di Trento, -approximately 1251.

OCLC:

209583196