University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 555

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DS ID:

DS1546

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 555

Title:

Memorie manuscritte relative alla famiglia de Medici et all'istoria fiorentina.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1585-1699]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 124 leaves : paper ; 291 x 209 mm bound to 300 x 215 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Marginal notes in pencil in English in modern hand.
Origin: Written in Italy, older materials and later copies bound together, late 16th-17th centuries.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 124 + i; [1-124]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script by various hands.
Binding: Half vellum.
Formerly owned by Ottaviano Giuseppe de' Medici in 1747 (f. 119). Compare marginal note on f. 22 and final note on f. 119 to marginal note on f. 42r of UPenn Ms. Codex 566, which appears to be in a similar hand.
Purchased, 1957.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, European

Manuscripts, Italian

codices (bound manuscripts)

wills

Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de', 1472-1503

Italy--Florence

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498

Medici, House of

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924865083503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vh5cj11/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania