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[Letter on political affairs in Europe].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 322
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Foreign relations--17th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Holy League against the Turks, 1684.
- International relations.
- Turkey--History--1453-1683.
- Turkey.
- History.
- Turkey--History--1683-1829.
- Turkey--History--Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Accessioned, 1959.
- Physical Description:
- 15 leaves : paper ; 271 x 207 (212 x 112) mm bound to 277 x 211 mm
- Other Title:
- Ho la lettera di V. S. Dma., e mi favorisci troppo in darmi laude di buon soldato.
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1650 and 1699]
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- The letter appears to be addressed to a pope and appears to deal with the political situation in Europe around the 1670s or 1680s. The writer asks for military support from the great powers for the war against the Turks. This appears to be an archival copy of the letter rather than an original. It was originally part of a larger volume.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Heading and incipit (f. 1r): Molto Ill.me. et Do.me. Sig. mis. Ho la lettera di V. S. Dma., e mi favorisci troppo in darmi laude de buon soldato ...
- Foliation: Paper i (modern paper) + 15 + i (modern paper); 186-200, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-15], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The contemporary foliation indicates that this was originally part VII (or item VII) of a larger volume (cf. f. 1r).
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
- Binding: Modern boards. Edges of leaves fraying slightly. Some oxidation of ink. Various smudges and stains.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- 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. 109 (Ms. Italian 80).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 322
- OCLC:
- 155964323
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