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Title

Fondatione della città di Lucca et altre memorie sino al anno 1370

Call number

Ms. Codex 264
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580878
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580878

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

16--?

Place

Lucca?

Summary

Chronicle of the history of Lucca, in Italy. Part II, from p. 242, continues the chronicle from 1370 to 1609. The last page contains a few notes from the 18th century.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1); title written on lower part of spine: Croniche lucchesi (badly worn, hard to read).
   
• There is one leaf laid in between p. 77-78.
   
• Leather of cover crumbling in places. Back spine splitting. Many stains and smudges. Some leaves splitting and fraying at the edges. Some leaves have lost small amounts of text due to trimming.
   
• Typed transcription of first eight pages on file in the Library.
   

Extent

202 leaves : 210 x 147 (183 x 120) mm. bound to 225 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 202 + ii; 1, [i], 2-368, [ii], 369-399, [ii]; contemporary or slightly later pagination in ink, upper outer corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Blind-stamped leather, possibly 18th century. The leaves are of several sizes, suggesting that the volume was written in segments and then gathered and bound.

Script

Written in cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Sold by La Medicea (Florence), 1956.
   

Genres

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

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