Lettere scritte ... al March[ese] Montauti inviato di Toscana alla corte cesarea / dal Seg[retario] Bassetti.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bassetti, Apollonio.

Contributor:

Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Ambassadors.

Italy--Tuscany.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

letters (correspondence)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.

Physical Description:

2 v. (572, 372 leaves [copy]) : paper ; volume 1: 285 x 210 mm bound to 307 x 225 mm ; volume 2: 287 x 207 mm bound to 298 x 220 mm

Place of Publication:

[Florence and Pisa], 1691-1699.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

355 original letters from Apollonio Bassetti written from Florence and Pisa to Anton Francesco Montauti, special envoy from Tuscany to the imperial court in Vienna. The last letter in this volume written by Bassetti is dated 18 April 1699, just five days before his death on 23 April 1699. The second volume is an eighteenth-century manuscript copy of these 355 letters.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Volume 1: Paper, 572; [1-572]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Volume 2: Paper, 372; [1-372]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in various cursive hands; copies in a single cursive hand.

Binding: Contemporary parchment, both volumes.

Origin: Written in Florence and Pisa, 1691-1699.

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. 187 (Ms. Lea 198[3]).

See F. Galuzzi, Storia del Granducato di Toscana, IV, 392, on Appollonio Bassetti.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 535.

OCLC:

155965727

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