Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Disputationes orthodoxae de nova, absurdaque forma judicii a quaesitoribus fidei in coërcendis haereticis usurpata [manuscript].

[Naples, circa 1715]

342 leaves : paper ; 281 x 198 (218 x 135) mm. bound to 291 x 220 mm.

Works in two different hands bound together. The first is Niccoló Capasso's Ragionamenti in Latin written in one hand on various sizes of paper, with extensive marginal notes in the same hand (see also UPenn. Ms. Codex 588 and Ms. Codex 589, both in Italian). Contents of the Dissertationes jurisdictionales anonimae, written in a second hand are listed (index on f. 112).

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 3r).

Pagination: i (contemporary paper) + 342 + i (contemporary paper); [xiv], 1-206, [viii], contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, 1-229, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-342], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by two different hands.

Binding: Contemporary parchment, cracked along upper hinge.

Origin: Written in Naples, circa 1715 (f. 6r).

Pencilled notes on f. 2v-3r are in Henry Charles Lea's hand.

UPenn Ms. Codex 590.

Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 590