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Origine e descendenza della casa de Medici ... [etc.].

Publication:
[Italy], [between 1600 and 1699]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
450 leaves : paper ; 278 x 196 (248 x 141) mm bound to 287 x 198 mm + 1 note
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Subjects:
Medici, House of.
Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Political ethics.
Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Political science.
Tuscany (Italy) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
History of the House of Medici, followed by a copy of The prince by Niccolo Macchiavelli.
Contents:
1. f.1r-334v: Origine e descendenza della casa de Medici.
2. f.335r [f. 336 numbered 334]-447v: Niccolo Macchiavelli. Il principe.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 450; 1-291, 293-334, [i], 334-447, [448-449]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Probably written in Florence, in the 17th century.
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1957.
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. 165 (Ms. Lea 84).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 552
Contains:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Principe.
OCLC:
155966138