University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 866

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1703

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 866

Title:

De re[publi]ca Veneta /

De republica Veneta

Author:

Contarini, Gasparo, 1483-1542

Gasparo Contarini WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1525 and 1575

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 92 leaves : paper ; 201 x 142 (149 x 98) mm bound to 209 x 142 mm

Former Owner(s):

Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja WIKIDATA

Morbio, Carlo

Carlo Morbio WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: Saepenumero animadverti complures advenas prudentas homines, nec bonorum artium ignaros, qui cum primum Venetias venissent...
Explicit: Si enim quippiam bonum a Deo immortali hominibus provenire credibile ist, hoc praecipue divinitus Venetae urbi obtigisse persuasissimum cuilibet esse debet. Libri quinti et totius operis finis.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 92 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-90, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand, with contemporary or near contemporary marginal notes.
Binding: 20th-century quarter vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Moderate oxidation of ink, books 1-3, a few folios illegible.
Formerly in the collection of the Morbio Library (Rosenthal).
Sold by Guillaume Libri at auction at Sotheby's, 28 March 1859, lot 282.
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, 1957.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

histories (literary genre)

Italy--Venice

History

Early works

Politics and government

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9931780593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pn8xg64/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania