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Dell' historia del sacro Concilio di Trento / scritta da Antonio Milledoni, segretario del Consiglio de X di Venetia in detto Concilio.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Milledonne, Antonio, 1522-1588.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Government--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--History--16th century.
- History.
- Council of Trent (1545-1563 : Trento, Italy)--Early works to 1800.
- Council of Trent.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Erased library stamp on title page (f. i recto).
- Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1956.
- Physical Description:
- 124 leaves : paper ; 269 x 200 (223 x 150) mm bound to 277 x 202 mm
- Other Title:
- Storia del Concilio di Trento.
- Place of Publication:
- [Venice], [between 1600 and 1625?]
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Account of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) by Antonio Milledonne, secretary of the Venetian Consiglio dei Dieci at the Council. Includes an index (on a loose quire) at the end.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title and attribution from title page (recto of unnumbered folio immediately preceding f.1).
- Spine title: Storia del Concilio di Trento.
- Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 124 + i (contemporary paper); [i], 1-119, [iv]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The four unnumbered folios after f. 119 are a loose quire (two bifolia) laid in; they appear to be contemporary with the rest of the manuscript.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with the four loose folios at the end in a second hand.
- Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch). Ink oxidation has caused discoloration, but paper remains intact.
- Origin: Probably written in Venice, early 17th century (bookseller's description, on file in the 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. 97 (Ms. Italian 26).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 268
- OCLC:
- 155929005
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