University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 466

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DS ID:

DS1535

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 466

Title:

Lettere scritte a Pier Francesco Portinari della republica fiorentina quando era suo ambasciatore a Siena l'anno 1529.

Author:

Portinari, Pier Francesco

Pier Francesco Portinari WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

1529.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 133 leaves : paper ; 291 x 212 mm bound to 300 x 218 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Remains of seals.
Title from upper cover and front flyleaf.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 133 + i (contemporary paper); [1-133]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.
Binding: 18th-century[?] vellum. Very fragile; some parts torn, water damaged; numerous leaves are nearly or completely detached.
Origin: Written in Florence, 1529.
Former owners include: Stewart and Wheatly (bookplate, inside upper cover); Sir Thomas Phillipps ms. 11863 (at one time part of 3757? this no. crossed out inside upper cover).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

letters (correspondence)

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Italy--Siena

Sixteenth century

Italy--Florence

Ambassadors

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924864593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3x63b65t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania