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Title

Descrizione della vita, e morte del sig. Giovanni Jacopo de Medici, marchese di Marignano

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 460
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486631
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486631

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1600

Place

Florence?

Summary

Account of the life and death of Giovanni Giacomo de' Medici, marquis of Marignano, who led the armies of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, in the war against Siena, 1552-1554, and was responsible for the defeat of general Piero Strozzi.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 160r).
   
• Incipit: Fra il marchese di Marignano... (f. 160r).
   
• Presumably originally bound with Ms. Codex 461.
   

Extent

25 leaves : 269 x 190 (198 x 135) mm. bound to 279 x 196 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 25 + i (modern paper); 160-184; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half morocco.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, which appears to be the same hand as in Ms. Codex 461.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover); sold in the Guilford library at auction at Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 281-1.
   
• Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7513 (shelf mark, inside upper cover).
   
• Purchased, 1968.
   

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover