Libro d'oro ossia delle famiglie nobili venete / del Padre Coronelli.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Venice (Italy)--History.

Venice (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

genealogies (histories)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1960.

Physical Description:

167 leaves plus 17 leaves tipped in : paper, illustrations ; 278 x 198 mm bound to 283 x 207 mm

Place of Publication:

[Venice], [circa 1712]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Genealogies of noble families of Venice, with small engraved coats of arms pasted in throughout, some have become detached, some coats of arms are illustrated in pen-and-ink. Arranged alphabetically with index at the end.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from leaf pasted onto front endleaf verso.

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 167 + i (contemporary paper) leaves; 1-321, [xiii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. 17 folios tipped in (some detached).

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: Illustrated with pasted-in engraved coats of arms, and some drawn in pen-and-ink.

Binding: Contemporary calf.

Origin: Written in Venice, circa 1712.

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. 185 (Ms. Lea 186 Italian).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 604.

OCLC:

209633143

Access Restriction:

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