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Title

Lettere scritte a Pier Francesco Portinari della republica fiorentina quando era suo ambasciatore a Siena l'anno 1529

Authors

• Portinari, Pier Francesco

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 466
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924864593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613509
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486459

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1529

Place

Florence

Summary

Ninety-seven letters and instructions to Portinari (partly in cipher with interlinear transcript) from Florentine officials (Dieci di libertà e pace; Priori; Otto di pratica; Carlo Carducci; Aloysio Lapaccini; Francesco Mannelli; Rafaello Girolami; Bardo Altoviti; Francesco Nasi; Piero del Migliore, etc.).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from upper cover and front flyleaf.
   
• Remains of seals.
   

Extent

133 leaves : 291 x 212 mm. bound to 300 x 218 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 133 + i (contemporary paper); [1-133]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century[?] vellum. Very fragile; some parts torn, water damaged; numerous leaves are nearly or completely detached.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Stewart and Wheatly (bookplate, inside upper cover); Sir Thomas Phillipps ms. 11863 (at one time part of 3757? this no. crossed out inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Ambassadors--Italy--Florence--16th century

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

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