Instruttioni e lett[er]e dell' illust[rissimo] et reverend[issimo] signore D[on] Carlo Cardinale Carafa, nipote di Papa Paolo IV, concernenti le controversie e li dispareri con la corona di Spagna cioè Filippo II e Carlo V con il sudetto pontifice massimo
- Description
- 17th-century copy of 71 instructions, dispatches, and letters dated between August 1555 and March 1563.
- Creator
- Carafa, Carlo, approximately 1517-1561
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- dispatches
- Manuscripts, Italian
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1600
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
- Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598
- Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Spain
- Catholic Church
- International relations
- Geographic Subject
- Spain -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church
- Holy Roman Empire -- History -- 1517-1648
- Spain
- Extent
- 140 leaves : paper ; 257 x 184 (210 x 122) mm bound to 263 x 180 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 139 + i (contemporary paper); [i], 1-137, [138]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
- Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Oxidation of ink throughout, but text is legible.
- Italian.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 385
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Cardinal Antonio Saverio Gentili (ownership stamp on title page).
- Purchased, 1961.
- Gentili, Antonio-Saverio, 1681-1753, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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