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Title

Cronica dopo la morte del Duca Alessandro de' Medici, fino al 1555

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 564
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924865173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613581
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486517

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

after 1555

Place

Florence

Summary

A chronicle of events in Florence from the assasination of Alessandro de' Medici in 1537 to 1555. One or more pages seem to be missing from the beginning. The chronicle appears to be unique and is especially rich in descriptions of civic festivals, it also has texts, and in one instance a musical score (f. 48v), for songs. It seems to contain interesting political gossip and some unfamiliar details of Alessandro's assassination (according to article by Cutolo).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page [i], added at a later date.
   
• Several folios damaged on corners with loss of text.
   

Extent

83 leaves : 349 x 238 (320 x 224) mm. bound to 358 x 245 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (later paper) + 83; [1-83]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, repaired and rebacked with vellum.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand with corrections in at least one other hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Songs, Italian
• Festivals--Italy--Florence

Genres

• Codices
• Chronicles
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Chronicle
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 48v — Musical notation, f. 48v
• fol. 81r — Poems, f. 81r

Decorations

• fol. 45v — Diagram, f. 45v