Florentine historical miscellany.

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Medici, House of.

Strozzi family.

Florence (Italy)--History.

Florence (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

biographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Luigi Frescobaldi to Captain Napier (inscription, "Capt. Napier, from a friend sincere, Luigi Frescobaldi, October 8th, 1838," f. 2r).

Purchased, 1957.

Physical Description:

426 leaves : paper ; 316 x 216 (239 x 148) mm bound to 338 x 225 mm

Place of Publication:

[Florence], [after 1619]

Language Note:

Italian.

Contents:

1. Istoria della Sig[no]ra Bianca Cappello Gran Duchessa di Toscana, e di Pietro Buonaventuri, suo marito, ff. 3r-29v.

2. Congiura di Lorenzo de'Medici contro il Duca Allesandro seguita in Firenze alli 6 di gennaio 1536, ff. 31r-43v.

3. Morte del Duca Alessandro de'Medici seguita in Firenze nella Casa di Lorenzo de'Medici, ff. 45r-47v.

4. Vita di Lorenzo de'Medici..., ff. 51r-130v.

5. Morte di Vincenzio Serzelli, ff. 133r-153v.

6. Vita di Piero Strozzi Maresciallo, e generale di Francia in Italia, ff. 155r-204r.

7. Vita di Filippo di Filippo Strozzi, ff. 205r-339r.

8. Discorso del clar[issi]mo Sig. Alessandro Rinuccini...sopra la carestia del'anno 1619, ff. 341r-354r.

9. Vita di Piero Strozzi, ff. 357-413r.

10. Compendio della vita della Suor Maria Caterina Brondi, descritta dal Padre Abate Bambacati, ff. 415r-426v.

Notes:

Title from Zacour-Hirsch description, no overall title in manuscript.

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 426 + i (modern paper); [1-426]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script by many hands.

Binding: 19th-century cloth, upper cover nearly detached.

Origin: Written in Florence, after 1619 (f. 2r).

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. 164 (Ms. Lea 77 Italian).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 547.

OCLC:

155966009

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