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Title

Relatione della corte di Francia fatta dall' Eccelentissimo Signor Nicolò Morosini, ambasciatore della serenissima Republica di Venetia appresso Sua Maestà Cristianissima

Authors

• Morosini, Nicolò

Call number

Ms. Codex 343
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580975
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580975

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1655

Place

Venice

Summary

Account by Nicolò Morosini of his experiences as Venetian ambassador to France at the court of Louis XIV.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. i recto).
   
• Spine title: Relatione della corte di Francia dell' anno 1655.
   
• Incipit: Serenissimo Principe: Nel dover riferire alla Serenità Vostra lo stato, in che hò lasciato la francia al partirmi da quell' Ambasciaria ... (f. 1r).
   

Extent

94 leaves : 263 x 201 (230 x 137) mm. bound to 265 x 204 mm

Foliation

Paper, 94; [ii], 1-91, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Cover splitting at spine. Oxidation of ink, causing severe damage on some folios. Edges of many leaves frayed, worn and split.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Provenance: "Ex m.s. Caes. Card. Rasponi" (note on title page).
   
• Accessioned, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Ambassadors--Italy--Venice--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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