'Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte à tempi nostri in Provenza...'
MS. Barlow 8
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
'Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte à tempi nostri in Provenza...'
Shelfmark
MS. Barlow 8
Summary
'Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte à tempi nostri in Provenza, Calabria è Piemonta, contra il popolo che chiamano Valdese; e delle gran cose operate del Signore in loro aiuto, è favore, raccolta fedelmente da Scipione Lentolo Napolitano in tempo ch'egli era ministro della parola di Dio nella Valli d'Angrogna, Lucema, Bobio, Peroscia, e san Martino in Piemonte' (p. vii): beg. 'Intorno all anno del Signore 1160' (p. 10), preceded by a 'Sonetto a Christo' in 14 lines, beg. 'Sancto, e pietoso Agnello' (p. viii), and a preface dedicated 'A gl' illustri signori, il signor Giovanni de Guleri, gia governatore di Valtelina, et il signor Hercole de Salgi, gia potesta di Tirano, signori miei sempre osservandissimi' (p. 1).
Date
Written in the late 16th century
Language
Italian
Physical facet
On paper, binding, contemporary white parchment
Physical extent
589 pages
Custodial history
A note at the end (p. 583), signed and sealed by 'Nicolaus Tschiffeling, dicographus Reipublicae Bern', attests that this copy was made from the authentic MS., and is followed by a memorandum that it was collated with the original in the possession of Cesare Lentolo of Berne, nephew of Scipio, signed by Anthony Stettler and John Rodolph, public notaries.
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Collection contents
'Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte à tempi nostri in Provenza...'
