Descrizzione geografica della Germania

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1794

Description:

Description of the geography of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with corrections and annotations throughout. Arranged by aristocratic, royal, or ecclesiastical territories, such as Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Bavaria, Württemberg, Cologne, Westphalia, and Brunswick; within each territory, arranged by dioceses and archdioceses such as Trento, Brixen, Salzburg, Freising, Regensburg, Passau, Konstanz, Augsburg, Bamberg, Worms, Basel, Münster, Osnabrück, and Hildesheim. Some oxidation and crystallization of ink.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (Zacour-Hirsch).; Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 5170 (inscription, inside upper cover).; Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1961.; North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

126 leaves : paper; 288-297 x 200-212 cm + 1 note

Geographic Subject:

Germany -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Austria -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Switzerland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Switzerland; Austria; Germany

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (original torn off, but supplied in slightly later hand on repair, f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, i + 126 + i; [1-126]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right or upper center recto. A bifolium containing additions or corrections is pasted in (f. 92v).; Script: Written in cursive script, mostly by one hand, but some annotations and leaves at the end (f. 123r-126v) may be in different hands.; Binding: Contemporary (late 18th-century) parchment.; Origin: Probably written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), after 1794 (latest event cited in text, f. 89r).; Incipit: La Germania si stende dal g.22m.30. circa di longitudine ... (f. 1r).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 374