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Lettere e scritture passate nel concilio di Trento.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 678
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Catholic Church.
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy)--Early works to 1800.
- Council of Trent.
- Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Spain.
- International relations.
- Spain--Foreign relations--Catholic Church.
- Spain.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Physical Description:
- 212 leaves : paper ; 263 x 206 (198 x 115) mm bound to 266 x 208 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [after 1563]
- Language Note:
- Italian, Latin, and Spanish.
- Summary:
- Collection of letters and documents related to the Council of Trent.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-110v: Lettere degli signori legati dal concilio...all'ill[ustrissi]mo et r[everendissi]mo card[ina]l Borromeo nel 1562 et 1563.
- 2. f.112r-124v: Scrittura data dal amb[asciat]ore di Francia et da Mons. d'Oyssel al re cat[toli]co [Philip II] die prima maii 1563, with Riposta del re cat[toli]co...die 9 maii 1563, [the name Gonçalo Perez, the king's secretary, at the end of each document], in Spanish.
- 3. f.125r-128v: Scrittura data dal archivesc[o] Granato [Pedro Guerrero] et Braga à li ssri. legati, et mandata da li ssri. legati die Augusti 1562, in Latin.
- 4. f.129r-134v: Instrutt[ion]e à Mons. di Vintimiglia [Carlo Visconti] per la corte di Spagna [31 Oct. 1563], signed Carolus Card[ina]lis Borromeus (f. 132v).
- 5. f.135r-161v: Proposita et postulata ab oratoribus Christiani regis pro reformatione ecclesiae.
- 6. f.165r-170v: Copy of letter without indication of author or addressee, Trento, 1 March 1563, in Italian.
- 7. f.171r-186r: Articulus primus [-xxxiv], each with responsio legatorum, and responsio cardinalium.
- 8. f.187r-193v: Text of 13 proposals with responses, incipit: Gravantur etiam maxime pontifices.
- 9. f.195r-212r: Instructione del rey cat[toli]co à Don Luis d'Avila para Roma sobre los negoccios del concilio [name G. Perez at end], in Spanish, Madrid, 30 Nov. 1562.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from spine.
- Foliation: Paper, 212; [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in cursive script by at least 5 different hands, perhaps at different dates after 1563, in Italy [etc.?]. Item 2 was folded, with address on outside leaf.
- Binding: Contemporary vellum. Upper cover and spine pulling away from text block. Moderate to heavy oxidation of ink on some folios, with perforations of leaves.
- Origin: Written in Italy after 1563.
- 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), Supplement A (5), Library Chronicle, p. 97-98 (Ms. Lea 578).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 678.
- OCLC:
- 155985375
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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