Il Sacco di Roma : seguito nell'anno 1527 nel Pontificato di Clemente VII

Name:

Rossi, Patritio de

Timespan:

1420-1798

Date:

1600

Description:

Account of the sack of Rome in 1527 (p. 1-1131). Main text is preceded by a table of contents (p. ix-xxxix). Also includes a second work by the same author: Compendio delli casi più degni e memorandi occorsi nelli pontificati da Gregorio XIII sino ad Innocenzo X (p. 1-[41], second pagination). In both works, the text is accompanied by topical headings in the margins, in the same hand as the text. In the first text, these headings are numbered and are keyed to the index at the beginning.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Francesco Casado y Velas Chesa (owner's inscription, f. i recto); E. Silvestri, Milan (bookplate, dated 1908, inside upper cover).; Sold by Arturo Aglietti (Rome), 1959.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Histories; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

613 leaves : paper; 263 x 200 (244 x 140) mm bound to 272 x 202 mm

Geographic Subject:

Rome (Italy) -- History -- 1420-1798

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. v).; Spine label: Rossi. Sacco di Roma.; Heading and incipit of first work (p. 1): Del Sacco di Roma. Parte Prima. Fin dalla mia adolescenza, vago ...; Pagination: Paper, i + 613 + i; [xlii], 1-1132, 1-17, [18-52]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: First work written in 24 long lines; second work written in 27-31 long lines.; Script: Primary work written in a cursive script by a single hand, with the second work written in a second hand.; Binding: 18th-century stamped, gilt calf over boards. Cover worn at edges and splitting at outer hinges. Trimming has cropped away small portions of the text on some folios, especially in the second text. Some leaves frayed at the edges. Some stains and smudges. Some oxidation of ink, especially in the second text.; Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 304