Details

Subjects:

Ambassadors -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 17th century.
Ambassadors.
Tuscany (Italy) -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Italy -- Tuscany.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Letters.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Thirty-six autograph letters of Cosimo III, son of Ferdinand II, to Anton Francesco Montauti, envoy to the court in Vienna; some partly in cipher.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from upper cover.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 80 + i (contemporary paper); [1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Florence, most dated 1692-1693, at least one 1700, some dates indecipherable.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli (Milan), 1952.

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. 155 (Ms. Lea 32).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 533

Contributor:

Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis.

OCLC:

155965680