Details

Subjects:

Ambassadors.
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Leopold I -- 1655-1705.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 17th century.
Tuscany (Italy) -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
Italy -- Tuscany.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

280 letters, including some autograph letters of Panciatichi, secretary of state for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to Anton Francesco Montauti, special envoy from Tuscany to the imperial court in Vienna.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Foliation: Paper, 548; [1-548]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several scribal hands, with some autograph letters.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written mostly in Florence, some in Pisa, 1691-1699.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Milan), 1961.

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. 187 (Ms. Lea 198[6] Italian).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 537

Contributor:

Montauti, Anton Francesco, Abbe Marquis.

OCLC:

155965779