Conclave fatto per la sede vacante di Papa Alessandro ottav nel quale fù assunto al pontificato il cardinal Antonio Pignatelli napolitano, che prese il nome d'Innocento XII.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Innocent XII, Pope, 1615-1700.

Innocent.

Papacy--History--17th century.

Papacy.

Popes--Election--Early works to 1800.

Popes.

Popes--Election.

History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H.P. Kraus.

Physical Description:

34 leaves : paper ; 253 x 187 (221 x 132) mm bound to 263 x 197 mm

Production:

[Rome], [circa 1691]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Describes the complicated political intrigues of the cardinals during the long conclave after the death of Pope Alexander VIII, who died on February 1, 1691. The conclave lasted five and a half months and ended in the election of Cardinal Antonio Pignatelli (Pope Innocent XII, 1691-1700).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 35 + i (modern paper); 110-138, [v], contemporary foliation in ink, [1-35], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

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

Binding: Modern boards.

Origin: Written in Rome, circa 1691.

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. 123 (Ms. Italian 150).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 391

OCLC:

155968096