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Privilegi, decreti imperiali, bolle pontificie, coronazione di pr[inci]pe grande, instruzioni, renunzie, instr[ument]i, rogiti di benedizioni coniugale, relazioni, investiture, scritt[u]re div[ers]e, lettere missive e responsive, il t[ut]to att[inent]e n[e]l principio alla Casa de' Medici e poi alla Casa Reale di Toscana.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, House of.
- Medici, Piero de', 1416-1469.
- Medici, Piero de'.
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
- Cosimo.
- Medici, Giuliano de'.
- Medici, Lorenzo de'.
- Medici, Francesco de', 1614-1634.
- Medici, Francesco de'.
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Papal documents.
- Catholic Church.
- Clergy.
- Nepotism.
- Ambassadors.
- Church and state.
- Italy.
- Catholic Church--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Treaty of Ryswick (1697).
- Treaty of Ryswick.
- Ratisbon, Treaty of, 1684.
- Church and state--Italy.
- Ambassadors--Italy--17th century.
- Nepotism--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Papal documents.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- bulls (papal records)
- papal briefs
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Antonio Peregrino Colombari (inscription, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Piero Ginori-Conti (bookplate inside upper cover).
- Physical Description:
- 344 leaves : paper, color illustrations coats of arms; 232 x 167 mm bound to 243 x 180 mm + 1 booklet (6 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [after 1711].
- Language Note:
- Italian and Latin.
- Summary:
- Miscellaneous documents related to the Medici family and the grand-dukes of Tuscany. Many documents represent communications between the Florentine rulers and the Papal States in various forms (including papal bulls, briefs and letters). The House of Medici had a close relationship with the Papal States for centuries, and the Pope was present in many important moments of the history of the family; examples of this relationship that appear in the manuscript include a bull of Pope Pius V in which he proclaimed Cosimo I de' Medici grand-duke of Tuscany in 1569 (translation from Latin on p. 45-54); a blessing for the wedding between Henry the IV, King of France, and Maria de' Medici made by the cardinal Aldobrandino (p. 108-110); a letter between Ferdinando II, grand-duke of Tuscany, and Pope Clement IX (p. 110-111); a letter between Pope Alexander VIII and Cosimo III, grand-duke of Tuscany (p. 111-114); and detailed accounts of the papal ambassadors in Tuscany (p. 119-126). The grand-dukes of Tuscany aimed at creating a network of allies all over Europe: documents on foreign relations between the House of Medici and grand-dukes of Tuscany include correspondence between Cosimo I and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Philip II, King of Spain, Henry IV, King of France and Pope Pius V; a copy of the inclusion of Cosimo III (even if Florence did not directly take part in the conflict) in the Treaty of Ryswick, 1697 (p. 115-116); a letter between the ambassador of Tuscany and that of England (p. 130-131); and an account on the Treaty of Ratisbon, between France and Spain, in 1684 (p. 245-273). The manuscript also contains miscellaneous documents related to the history of the Catholic church (including one on nepotism, p. 139-146); documents on the Spanish monarchy (including an explanation of why the kings of Spain are called Catholic); an account of one of the many Dutch rebellions against England and France; and the history of the conspiracy against Pier Luigi Farnese, duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro, ordered by Charles the V. A table of contents in a late 19th-century hand, with 6 leaves, containing a complete list of the works contained in the manuscript, is laid inside the upper cover.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from p.21.
- Pagination: Paper, 344 leaves; [1-688]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
- Layout: Written in 29-31 long lines. Marginalia and other miscellaneous notations are also present.
- Script: Written in a cursive script.
- Decoration: Watercolor illustration of the coats of arms of the grand-duke of Tuscany, the Medici family and of Florence surround title box (p. 21); horizontal decorative line at the end of some documents (for example, p. 28, 29, 37 etc); signet containing the initials L S (for example, p. 28 and p. 38); 2 seals drawn in ink and pencil, made of two concentric circles each and containing the words DOMINE TU SICS QUIA AMO TE SEMPER and PONTIFEX MAXIMUS INNOCENTIUS XII respectively (p.146); sprinkled edges in red and green.
- Watermark: Unidentified watermark containing a triangle with a clover-leaf on top and 3 crossed arrows underneath. Beneath the arrows is the name M O R O and the initials G R.
- Binding: Gilt contemporary morocco with arms of Medici on upper and lower cover (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Written in Italy, after 1711.
- 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. 223 (Ms. Lea 385).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1439
- OCLC:
- 312509485
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