[Istruzioni a voi Signor Pietro d'Agostino della relazione che s'aver à Sua Maestà delle cose di Sicilia] ... [etc.].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gonzaga, Ferrante, 1507-1557

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2826, with older signature, no. 11314/76 (stamp on f. [i] recto).

Physical Description:

88 leaves : paper ; bound to 303 x 210 mm

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1477

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1546, ca. 1600-1625]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of two bound works concerning the kingdom of Sicily, with the first, Tratato curioso del regno di Sicilia, written in the first quarter of the 17th century by an anonymous author, and the second, Istruzioni a voi Signor Pietro d'Agostino, written in the second half of the 16th century by Ferrante Gonzaga, prince of Molfetta.

Contents:

1. f.1r-61v: Tratato curioso del Regno di Sicilia.

2. f.62r-84v: Istruzioni a voi Signor Pietro d'Agostino della relazione che s'aver à Sua Maestà delle cose di Sicilia/Ferrante Gonzaga.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title of predominant work (f. 63r).

For records for the individual works in this volume, do a title search for UPenn Ms. Codex 1477.

Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 65 + 23 + i (later paper); [iv], 1-60, [61-84]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands.

Binding: Half calf (Zacour-Hirsch), Discorso sopra la Sicilia and gilt on spine; edges sprinkled in red.

Origin: Written in Italy, one work in 1546 (f. 84v), the other between 1600 and 1625 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (2) Library Chronicle, 36 (1970), no.1, p. 30 (Ms. Lea 444, Ms. Lea 445).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1477

Constituent Unit:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1477

OCLC:

318532267