Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 466: Lettere scritte a Pier Francesco Portinari della republica fiorentina quando era suo ambasciatore a Siena l'anno 1529 University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 466: Lettere scritte a Pier Francesco Portinari della republica fiorentina quando era suo ambasciatore a Siena l'anno 1529 are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from upper cover and front flyleaf. Remains of seals. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 466 9924864593503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613509 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486459 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.). Italian Lettere scritte a Pier Francesco Portinari della republica fiorentina quando era suo ambasciatore a Siena l'anno 1529 Portinari, Pier Francesco former owner Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

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 133 leaves : 291 x 212 mm. bound to 300 x 218 mm Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 133 + i (contemporary paper); [1-133]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in various cursive scripts by many different hands.

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

Written in Florence, 1529.

1529 Florence 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). Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Ambassadors--Italy--Florence--16th century Manuscripts, Italian--16th century Manuscripts, Renaissance Codices Letters 16th century Italian Italy Paper