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

Title

Lettera a Madama Cristina di Lorena, Granduchessa di Toscana

Authors

• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

Other related names

• Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636, recipient
• Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 369
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486582
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486582

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with a few quotations in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1615

Place

Italy

Summary

Letter to Maria Cristina, consort of Ferdinand I, de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in defense of the Copernican system. Cf. his Opera, v. 5 (Florence, 1895), pp. 307-348. This may perhaps be one of a number of manuscript copies, not in Galileo's hand, which were circulated among scholars.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no overall title in manuscript.
   
• Incipit: Alla serenissima madama la Gran Duchessa...
   

Extent

58 leaves : 218 x 157 (158 x 109) mm. bound to 222 x 162 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 59 + i (modern paper); [1-59]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half vellum.

Layout

Written in 18 lines.

Decoration

Engraved portrait of Galilei (Piroli sc.) inserted as frontispiece.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Francis Campbell Macauley (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Religion and science--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — Engraving, Bust of Galileo, f. 2v