Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Lettere...scritte a Alessandro da Verazano

Authors

• Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723
• Verazano, Alessandro da

Call number

Ms. Codex 538
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486493
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486493

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1696-1703

Place

Florence and Venice

Summary

279 letters and summaries, 228 are autograph letters of Cosimo III, son of Ferdinand II, to Alessandro da Verazano. Verazano seems to have been an envoy of Cosimo in Venice, but chiefly involved with affairs of the Holy Roman Empire rather than relations with the Republic of Venice. Verazano seems to have interleaved drafts or précis of his letters (49 items) with those received from Cosimo in response.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Extent

520 items : 287 x 202 to 330 x 225 mm. bound to 331 x 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, 520; [1-520]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Some folios completely detached.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1961.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Letters
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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