University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 555

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1546

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 555

Title:

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

Memoires

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1585-1699

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
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.
Origin: Written in Italy, older materials and later copies bound together, late 16th-17th centuries.
Marginal notes in pencil in English in modern hand.
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

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European

wills

Manuscripts, Italian

Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de', 1472-1503

Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498

Italy--Florence

History

Medici, House of

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9924865083503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vh5cj11/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania