BIB_ID
102908
Accession number
MA 3230.1-8
Creator
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Display Date
[ca. 1520-1545].
Credit line
Purchased, 1979.
Description
1 item (8 v.), bound : paper and vellum ; various sizes
Notes
A digital copy of the complete Historiae as printed 1566 in Venice is available at Imago Historiae of the Biblioteca digitale degli storici italiani dell'Umanesimo e del Rinascimento.
Book VII is in the hand of Ludovico degli Arrighi of Vicenza.
Each manuscript in a different calligraphic scribal hand with some autograph revisions and additions.
The page number citations indicating where the manuscript pages may be found in the printed text refer to the printed work of 1566, Venice: Mattaeus Bosellus, found online at "Imago Historiae", Biblioteca digitale degli storici italiana dell'Umanesimo e del Rinascimento, hosted by the Instituto Nazionale di Studi sui Rinascimento. Signum, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa."
Book VII is in the hand of Ludovico degli Arrighi of Vicenza.
Each manuscript in a different calligraphic scribal hand with some autograph revisions and additions.
The page number citations indicating where the manuscript pages may be found in the printed text refer to the printed work of 1566, Venice: Mattaeus Bosellus, found online at "Imago Historiae", Biblioteca digitale degli storici italiana dell'Umanesimo e del Rinascimento, hosted by the Instituto Nazionale di Studi sui Rinascimento. Signum, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa."
Summary
Eight manuscript volumes of Giovio's Historiae sui Temporis; four volumes bound in sixteenth century Italian leather over paper boards, three volumes in limp vellum wrappers and one volume (Book IV) sewn and housed in a paper folder. The eight volumes are described in eight individual records; see individual records for more details (MA 3230.1-8).
Housed in
Red cloth drop-spine box (45.4 cm)
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