Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Istorie tragiche [manuscript].

[Italy, circa 1700]

282 leaves : paper ; 191 x 131 mm. bound to 198 x 146 mm.

Italian historical miscellany.

Ms. codex.

Contents listing in Zacour-Hirsch is missing no. 4 above.

Title from spine.

Pagination: Paper, 282; [vi], 1-145, [v], 1-107, [i], 1-24, [iv], 1-34, [iv], 1-7, [iii], 1-3, 3-75, [ii], 1-15, [iii], 1-30, 1-8, f. 9-53; contemporary pagination and foliation in ink, upper outer corners; [vi], 1-145, [146-560]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. References in this record are to modern pagination.

Script: Written in a cursive and semi-cursive script by three different hands.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1700.

UPenn Ms. Codex 586.

Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 586