Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Congiura de' baroni [manuscript]

[Italy], 1731.

193 leaves : paper ; 272 x 194 (222 x 140) mm. bound to 286 x 210 mm.

Manuscript copy, in an eighteenth-century Italian hand, of the trial of the barons who conspired against Ferdinand I, King of Naples, in 1485 and 1486. The first document describes the trial of Antonello Petrucci and his two sons and that of Francisco Coppula, (p. 1-174). The second document is the text of the "Processo contra Pyrrum de Baulio, Antonellum de S. Severino, Johannem Carazolum" (p. 179-340). In addition there are 5 leaves of modern notes (3 folios tipped in plus 2 folios laid in) at the beginning; these notes, written by A.C. Howland (Henry C. Lea Professor at the University of Pennsylvania) discuss the publication history and sources for this manuscript.

Ms. codex.

Title from spine and from A.C. Howland manuscript notes tipped in at front endleaf.

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + v (modern paper) + 188 + i (contemporary paper); [xii], 1-340, [xxiv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, initialed F.S. (p. 340).

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Italy, 14 February 1731 (p. 340).

UPenn Ms. Codex 608

Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 608