Details

Subjects:

History.
Politics and government.
France -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800.
France -- History -- Early works to 1800.
France.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Treatise on the government of France as a whole and the government of regions of France such as Brittany, Burgundy, Normandy, Picardy, and Provence. The text refers to events as early as the 13th century and as late as 1701. Corrections throughout suggest that this is an original manuscript of the unknown author or translator.

Contents:

1. ff.1r-24r: Parte prima: Della Francia in generale.
2. ff.24r-78r: Parte seconda: Della Francia in particolare.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 80 + i; 1-32, 32, 34-78, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1701 (latest date in text, f. 14v).

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1961.

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. 123 (Ms. 149).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 390

OCLC:

155967881