Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Racconto della sollevazione di Napoli accaduta nel' 1647. distribuito per giornali sino al tempo, che furono introdotti li Spagnoli, incominciandó dalli 7. luglio 1647 giorno di domenica, e finisce à 6 aprile 1648 giorno di lunedi. Di più s'aggiunge altri successi derivati dall'istessa sollevazione, e durorno fino all'anno 1655 ... [manuscript].

[Naples, between 1675 and 1699]

173 leaves : paper ; 313 x 214 (279 x 184) mm. bound to 325 x 234 mm.

A day-by-day chronicle of the Masaniello revolt, as witnessed by the author or collected from "personal authority," perhaps based on a diary kept at the time. The author considers the revolt a divine punishment owing to the "little reverence" shown by the Spanish and the Neapolitan nobility to Cardinal Filomarino, then archbishop of Naples.

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. i recto). Attribution on title page, "Vostro affezionatissimo servo Pietro Giannoni," however, it appears that the name "Pietro Giannoni" was written over an earlier attribution that has been erased.

This text may be similar or nearly identical with that in UPenn Ms. Codex 401 (see also Ms. Codex 405).

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 173 + i (modern paper); [i], 1-172; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.

Binding: Half morocco with Giannoni stamped on spine [note that this may be an incorrect attribution].

Origin: Written in Naples in the late 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

UPenn Ms. Codex 607

Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 607