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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