Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

De his quae Neapoli, Hispaniae, ac Romae per Neapolitanos gesta, vel scripta fuere pro vitanda, impediendaque introductione procedendi per viam extraordinariae cognitionis contra vetustissimam, et immemorabilem praxim procedendi via ordinaria in tribunali sanctae inquisitionis [manuscript].

[Italy, circa 1700]

344 leaves plus 312 leaves : paper ; volume 1: 341 x 230 (230 x 130) mm. bound to 351 x 245 mm. ; volume 2: 337 x 225 (257 x 122) mm. bound to 347 x 240 mm.

Ms. codex.

Title from Volume 1, f. iii recto; second title from f. v recto; spine title Trattati per la introducione del S. Officio nel regno di Napoli.d

Foliation: Volume 1: Paper, 346; [v], 1-59, [ii], 60-160, [iii], 1-175, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, [1-340], upper right recto. Volume 2: Paper, 312; [vii], 176-430, [431-474 unnumbered], [vi]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, [1-305], upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive and semi-cursive script by at least two different hands.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).

UPenn Ms. Codex 605

Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 605