University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 461

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DS ID:

DS1534

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 461

Title:

Vita di Bartolommeo di Meo di Taldo di Valore Rustichelli... /

Author:

Robbia, Luca di Simone della

Luca della Robbia WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

[1600?]

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 64 leaves : paper ; 268 x 186 (217 x 142) mm bound to 278 x 201 mm

Former Owner(s):

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Presumably originally bound with preceding Ms. Codex 460.
Title from caption title (f.186r). Title on spine: Vita di Bartolo.Valore.
Incipit: La città di Firenze...
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 64 + i (modern paper); 186-249; foliated in ink in a contemporary hand, bottom center recto. Catchwords on lower right verso.
Layout: Written in 18 lines.
Script: Written in cursive script in one hand, the same as that of Ms. Codex 460.
Origin: Written in Florence [?], ca. 1600.
Binding: 19th century half morocco.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 6126.
Purchased, 1968.
Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover); sold in the Guilford library at auction at Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 584-2.

Keyword:

biographies (literary genre)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, European

Manuscripts, Renaissance

History

Italy

Italy--Florence

Valori, Bartolomeo, -1537

1492-1559

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924866323503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3707wp4g/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania