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Title

Memorie particulari della città de Firenze e comincia l'anno MDCXIII essendo Sommo Pontefice Paolo V et Imperatore Mattia I e Gran Duca di Toscana Cosimo II

Call number

Ms. Codex 542
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486495
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486495

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

after 1635

Place

Florence?

Summary

Annals of life in Florence from 1613-1635 with dated entries and some yearly summaries, told from a third-person objective stance. Describes court, civic, and religious ceremonial in some detail; unidentified writer was probably an official or perhaps a noble of the court. Also comments on commerce, grain prices, epidemics, new construction, births and deaths of public figures, natural disasters, etc.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from f. 2; spine title: Diario della città di Firenze del anno 1613 al 1635, marked XII below title [part of a larger work?]
   

Extent

209 leaves : 221 x 174 (194 x 116) mm. bound to 230 x 185 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 209; [1-209], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (some blank folios between entries for separate years, f. 203-209 blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with corrections and marginal notes in the same hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1957.
   

Genres

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

Licenses

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