Lettere de Cosimo III [al Marchese Montauti].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723.

Contributor:

Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Ambassadors--Italy--Tuscany--17th century.

Ambassadors.

Tuscany (Italy)--History--17th century--Sources.

Tuscany (Italy).

Italy--Tuscany.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

letters (correspondence)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli (Milan), 1952.

Physical Description:

80 leaves : paper ; 208 x 152 to 221 x 164 mm bound to 228 x 170 mm

Place of Publication:

[Florence], [1692-1700]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Thirty-six autograph letters of Cosimo III, son of Ferdinand II, to Anton Francesco Montauti, envoy to the court in Vienna; some partly in cipher.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from upper cover.

Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 80 + i (contemporary paper); [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Florence, most dated 1692-1693, at least one 1700, some dates indecipherable.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 155 (Ms. Lea 32).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 533

OCLC:

155965680