Genealogia discendenza del ramo del Marchese Don Vincenzo Colonna, principiandola con più certa notizia dall'anno 950...

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Colonna family.

Contributor:

Colonna, Vincenzo, 1787-1867.

Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 1906-1989, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

genealogies (histories)

letters (correspondence)

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1958.

Formerly owned by Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Physical Description:

30 leaves : paper ; 283 x 203 (243 x 180) mm bound to 298 x 210 mm

Production:

[Venice], 1706.

Language Note:

Italian, with some documents in Latin.

Summary:

Copies of documents establishing Vincenzo Colonna's genealogy (he was a member of the Sicilian-Neapolitan branch of the family) including copies of letters of contemporaries Francesco d'Este, Modena; Francesco Farnese, Parma; the Duke of Mantua, etc.; with notarization, testimonials, and the seal of Prince Philippus Hercolani at end. Index of documents on f. [ii recto-verso].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, 30; [ii], 1-25, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, [1-30], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a clear cursive script by a single hand, with notarial documents at the end in two different hands.

Binding: Gold-stamped paper, depicting hunter, hounds, stag, and hare.

Origin: Written in Venice, 1706 (f. 27r).

Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in Library.

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. 157 (Ms. Lea 44).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 540

OCLC:

155965631