University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 460

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30275

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 460

Title:

Descrizione della vita, e morte del sig. Gio[vanni] Jacopo de Medici, marchese di Marignano

Place:

Florence?

Florence TGN

Date:

1600?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 25 leaves : paper ; 269 x 190 (198 x 135) mm bound to 279 x 196 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.
Title from caption title (f. 160r).
Incipit: Fra il marchese di Marignano... (f. 160r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 25 + i (modern paper); 160-184; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, which appears to be the same hand as in Ms. Codex 461.
Binding: Modern half morocco.
Origin: Written in Florence[?], ca. 1600.
Presumably originally bound with Ms. Codex 461.
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 281-1.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7513 (shelf mark, inside upper cover).
Purchased, 1968.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, European

codices (bound manuscripts)

biographies (literary genre)

Italy--Siena

History

Sixteenth century

Italy--Florence

Medici, Giovanni Giacomo de', marchese di Marignano, 1495-1555

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924866313503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania