Considerationi ... sopra la vita di Giulio Agricola, scritta da Caio Cornelio Tacito / di Traiano Boccalini Romano.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Boccalini, Trajano.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Tacitus, Cornelius.

Local Subjects:

Tacitus, Cornelius.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1961.

Physical Description:

244 leaves : paper ; 214 x 149 (163 x 105) mm bound to 222 x 162 mm

Production:

[Italy], 1698.

Language Note:

Italian, with some Latin headings and quotations.

Contents:

1. p.2-68: Considerationi di Traiano Boccalini Romano sopra la vita di Giulio Agricola.

2. p.73-end: Osserviationi di Traiano Boccalini sopra'l primo libro dell'Historia di Gaio Cornelis Tacito.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 4r).

Foliation: Paper, 244; [1-244]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary pagination in ink, 1-73, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script. Bibliographic note in a later hand (f. 1v).

Binding: Contemporary boards, top section of spine has been torn away. There is evidence of water damage on the upper quarter of the volume f. 1-166. Worm damage on covers and end leaves.

Origin: Written in Italy, 24 June 1698 (f. 37v).

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 159).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 47

OCLC:

155962917