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Title

Florentine historical miscellany

Call number

Ms. Codex 547
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486500
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486500

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

after 1619

Place

Florence

Notes

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

Extent

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

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century cloth, upper cover nearly detached.

Script

Written in cursive script by many hands.

Provenance

• Gift of Luigi Frescobaldi to Captain Napier (inscription, "Capt. Napier, from a friend sincere, Luigi Frescobaldi, October 8th, 1838," f. 2r).
   
• Purchased, 1957.
   

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Index, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Istoria della Sig[no]ra Bianca Cappello Gran Duchessa di Toscana, e di Pietro Buonaventuri, suo marito, f. 3r
• fol. 31r — Congiura di Lorenzo de?Medici contro il Duca Allesandro seguita in Firenze alli 6 di gennaio 1536, f. 31r
• fol. 45r — Morte del Duca Alessandro de?Medici seguita in Firenze nella Casa di Lorenzo de?Medici, f. 45r
• fol. 51r — Vita di Lorenzo de?Medici..., f. 51r
• fol. 133r — Morte di Vincenzio Serzelli, f. 133r
• fol. 155r — Vita di Piero Strozzi Maresciallo, e generale di Francia in Italia, f. 155r
• fol. 205r — Vita di Filippo di Filippo Strozzi, f. 205r
• fol. 341r — Discorso del clar[issi]mo Sig. Alessandro Rinuccini...sopra la carestia del?anno 1619, f. 341r
• fol. 357r — Vita di Piero Strozzi, f. 357
• fol. 415r — Compendio della vita della Suor Maria Caterina Brondi, descritta dal Padre Abate Bambacati, f. 415r

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Owner note, f. 2r