Details

Subjects:

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Codices.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of works on the Florentine republic in the early 16th century, which ended with the resumption of rule by the House of Medici in 1530.

Contents:

1. f.8r-96r: Narratione ... del processo della causa agitata appresso la Cesarea M[aes]tà ... / Galeotto Giugni.
2. f.100r-140r: Discorso ... esposto agl'agenti cesarei in Napoli ... 1536 / Jacopo Nardi.
3. f.142r-172v: Discorso / Jacopo Nardi.
4. f.178r-194v: Lettera de fuorusciti fiorentini mandata all'illmo. sigr. Conte di Sifonte agente in Firenze del serenissimo Imper. Carlo V ... 1535.
5. f.198r-216v: Espositione del salmo quinto / Jacopo Nardi.
6. f.220r-241r: Ultima rimostranza ò supplica della Republica Fiorentina alla Maestà Cesarea dell'imperatore Carlo Quinto.
7. f.244r-266r: Capitula et conditiones pacis inter ... Clementem VI et Carolum Vm. imperatore.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 6r).
Foliation: Paper, 272; 1-272, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 1-5, 7, 97-99, 141, 173-177, 195-197, 217-219, 242-243, 267-272 blank).
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, completely detached from text block.
Origin: Written in Florence in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Antica libreria antiquaria Luigi Gonnelli & figli (Florence), 1954.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 149 (Ms. Lea 14).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 493

Contributor:

Nardi, Jacopo, 1476-approximately 1563.
Giugni, Galeotto.

OCLC:

155965286