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Title

Dispacci diplomatici inviati dalla corte granducale di Toscana al Anton Francesco Montauti

Authors

• Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723
• Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis

Call number

Ms. Codex 534
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486488
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486488

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1689-1699

Place

Florence

Summary

279 letters to Anton Francesco Montauti, special envoy to the imperial court in Vienna, a few with postscripts in the hand of Cosimo III; some partly in cipher. Most letters concern financial contributions for the support of the imperial troops quartered in Italy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

586 leaves : 206 x 150 to 289 x 208 mm. bound to 309 x 240 mm

Foliation

Paper, 586; [1-586]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment; several letters partly detached; parchment partly missing from spine.

Script

Written in several cursive hands, letters signed "Il gran duca di Toscana."

Provenance

• Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Ambassadors--Italy--Tuscany--17th century

Genres

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

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