[Historical miscellany concerning Poland].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.

Philip.

Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland, 1520-1572.

Sigismund.

Bona, Queen, consort of Sigismund I, King of Poland, 1494-1557.

Bona.

Lippomano, Luigi, 1500-1559.

Lippomano, Luigi.

Christian heretics--Poland--History.

Christian heretics.

Trials (Heresy)--Poland.

Trials (Heresy).

Jews--Poland--History--16th century.

Jews.

International relations.

History.

Poland--History--Sigismund II Augustus, 1548-1572.

Poland.

Spain--History--Philip II, 1556-1598.

Spain.

Poland--Foreign relations--Spain.

Spain--Foreign relations--Poland.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

legal documents

notarial documents

papal briefs

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, European.

Physical Description:

196 leaves : paper ; 320 x 220 (270 x 150) mm bound to 322 x 225 mm

Production:

[Italy], [after 1564]

Language Note:

Italian and Latin.

Summary:

Manuscript containing various works on Polish history, divided into two sections. The first section is related to the dispute between Philip II, King of Spain, and Sigismund II, King of Poland, and his mother, Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland. Both Spain and Poland claimed to be the legitimate rulers of the duchy of Bari and the principate of Rossano, respectively in Apulia and Calabria, southern Italy. The documents that appear in the manuscript include, among others, a note of the Spanish ambassador related to the restitution of Bari and Rossano to Philip II; a speech by Giovanni Lorenzo Papacoda, Queen's Counsel; various letters and notes describing the reasons and arguments that Philip II expressed to reclaim ownership of Bari and Rossano; a note describing how Bari and Rossano used to be owned by Isabel of Aragon, Duchess of Milan and mother of Bona Sforza; an index of the properties of Isabella of Aragon; and a letter to Philip II written by Vargas, Spanish ambassador, while he was headed to Rome. The second part of the manuscript contains documents related to the Reformation in Poland, the most important being accounts of the heresy trials conducted by Luigi Lippomano in 1556 against Jacob, bishop of Breslau and Andrew, bishop of Kracow; the response of the prelates of Breslau, Bratislava, Plozk and Westphalia on the Catholic faith; the laws of the Polish kingdom against heretics; an account of the Jews of Calisia (Kalisz, in modern Poland) purchasing stolen eucharistic hosts in 1556; and a brief from Pope Pius IV authorizing communion of two species (materia calicis), issued in 1564.

Contents:

1. f.1r-108v: [Documents regarding the dispute between Philip II King of Spain and Sigismund II of Poland and Bona Sforza over the control of Bari and Rossano]

2. f.111r-192v: [Legal and church documents regarding the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Poland]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 185 + i (contemporary paper); 1-156, [i], 173-176, [v], 177-192, [193-195]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords, lower right verso. Folio between f. 156 and 173 has had the upper portion that contained the first few lines of text as well as the folio number cut away. There are five unnumbered stubs between folios 176 and 177.

Layout: Written in 30 long lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Watermark: Similar to Briquet, Fleur de lis 7116 (Florence, 1530), (f. 1-108); and Homme 7573 (Milan, 1590), but with a more triangular body (f. 111-192).

Binding: Contemporary vellum.

Origin: Probably written in Italy, in the late 16th or early 17th century.

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. 223 (Ms. Lea 384).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1438

OCLC:

312130038