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Descrizione della vita, e morte del sig. Gio[vanni] Jacopo de Medici, marchese di Marignano.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 460
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, Giovanni Giacomo de', marchese di Marignano, 1495-1555.
- Medici, Giovanni Giacomo de'.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Siena (Italy)--History--16th century.
- Siena (Italy).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- biographies (literary genre)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 25 leaves : paper ; 269 x 190 (198 x 135) mm bound to 279 x 196 mm
- Production:
- [Florence?], [1600?]
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Account of the life and death of Giovanni Giacomo de' Medici, marquis of Marignano, who led the armies of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, in the war against Siena, 1552-1554, and was responsible for the defeat of general Piero Strozzi.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 9 (Ms. Italian 236).
- See Missaglia, Marco Antonio. Vita di Gio. Iacomo Medici marchese di Marignano (Milano: Pietromartire Locarni, & Girolamo Bordoni, 1605).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 460
- OCLC:
- 155969724
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