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

Name:

Carafa, Carlo, approximately 1517-1561

Timespan:

1517-1648

Date:

1600

Description:

17th-century copy of 71 instructions, dispatches, and letters dated between August 1555 and March 1563.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Cardinal Antonio Saverio Gentili (ownership stamp on title page).; Purchased, 1961.; Gentili, Antonio-Saverio, 1681-1753, former owner.

Subject:

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598; Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Spain; Catholic Church; International relations

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); dispatches; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

140 leaves : paper; 257 x 184 (210 x 122) mm bound to 263 x 180 mm

Geographic Subject:

Spain -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church; Holy Roman Empire -- History -- 1517-1648; Spain

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 385