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Title

Memorie, antiche e moderne ; cose più notabili accadute in Firenze fino della fondazione

Call number

Ms. Codex 565
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4684372
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4684372

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

circa 1780-1799

Place

Florence

Summary

A collection of Florentine ephemera, in no particular order, but more chronological toward the end. The monuments and churches of Florence are thoroughly covered, and the treatment of the reigns of the Hapsburg Grand Dukes (1765-ca. 1793 when the book comes to an end) is also extensive, especially in the area of civic ritual and festival. Other topics include politics, crime, plagues and natural disasters, wars, religious orders, confraternities, local families, local miracles, etc. Several prayers for specific feast days are entered in the text. Length of entries varies from a few sentences to several pages. Table of contents at the beginning (p. i-xii) bound in at a slightly later date.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading (p. i).
   

Extent

257 leaves : 310 x 215 mm. bound to 330 x 240 mm

Foliation

Paper, 257, i (contemporary paper); [xii], 1-499; irregular contemporary pagination in ink, [1-514], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment, torn in a number of places, cover nearly detached, some leaves detached. Manuscript is fragile, with severe oxidation of ink on several folios and stains and tears in others.

Script

Written in at least three different hands, on various sizes and types of paper.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1957.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Chronicles
• Gazetteers (dictionaries)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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