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

Title

Lettere scritte ... al Marchese Montauti inviato di Toscana alla corte cesarea

Authors

• Bassetti, Apollonio
• Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis

Call number

Ms. Codex 535
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486489
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486489

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1691-1699

Place

Florence and Pisa

Summary

355 original letters from Apollonio Bassetti written from Florence and Pisa to Anton Francesco Montauti, special envoy from Tuscany to the imperial court in Vienna. The last letter in this volume written by Bassetti is dated 18 April 1699, just five days before his death on 23 April 1699. The second volume is an eighteenth-century manuscript copy of these 355 letters.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

2 volume 1: 285 x 210 mm. bound to 307 x 225 mm. ; volume 2: 287 x 207 mm. bound to 298 x 220 mm

Foliation

Volume 1: Paper, 572; [1-572]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Volume 2: Paper, 372; [1-372]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, both volumes.

Script

Written in various cursive hands; copies in a single cursive hand.

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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