Inventario della raccolta di libri ritrovata nell'eredità della Ch. M. del Sig[no]re Ab[b]ate Niccola Rossi, che con le stime di ciascuno volume si presenta agli Ill[ustrissi]mi Sig[no]ri Provveditori Residenti del Magistrato del Pupilli di Firenze, dai Sig[no]ri Ab[ba]ti Ferdinado Giovannucci e Francesco Saverio Lucchesi

Name:

Giovannucci, Ferdinando; Saverio Lucchesi, Francesco

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1785

Description:

Contains the carefully compiled catalogs of 7,782 (falso 7.772) volumes of post-1500 printed books (f. 1-241 of vol. 1), with individual prices for all items and a total value of "scudi romani" 7,975.05; 1,307 incunable volumes (f. 242-290 of vol. 1), valued at sc. rom. 4,501.40; 415 manuscript codices, valued at sc. rom. 1,212.10. Each of the two volumes is notarized at the end.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Sold by Martin Breslauer (London), 1953.

Subject:

Rossi, Nicola, 1711-1785 Library; Rossi, Nicola, 1711-1785; Book collectors -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Book collectors

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Book catalogs; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

2 volumes (294, 160 leaves) : paper; volume 1: 310 x 213 (240 x 134) mm bound to 325 x 225 mm; volume 2: 268 x 197 (252 x 73) mm bound to 285 x 210 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page of vol. 1 (f. 1r).; Foliation: Vol. 1: Paper, [1], 2-291, [iii]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Vol. 2: Paper, i + 160 + i; [1-160]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Decoration: Red used in vol. 1 for headings and highlights.; Binding: Contemporary parchment.; Origin: Written at Rome, 1785 (f. 1r of vol. 1).; Description of the manuscript from the Martin Breslauer catalog on file in the Library.; The library of Rossi was actually sold during his lifetime to Bartolomeo Corsini and later became part of the Biblioteca Corsiniana in Rome.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 262