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Memorie istoriche delle cose di Firenze sc[r]itte...dall'anno MDI all' MDXLVI .. [etc.] / dal P. Fra Giuliano Ughi dalla Cavallina.

Author/Creator:
Ughi della Cavallina, Giuliano, 1483-1569.
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1600 and 1699]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
121 leaves : paper ; 350 x 240 (278 x 161) mm bound to 360 x 250 mm
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Subjects:
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Pisa (Italy) -- History.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Chronicle beginning with the author entering the clergy in 1501, from this personal introduction he turns at once to a general account of central Italy, with a focus on military conflicts (p. 1), with an alphabetical index titled Nota delle famiglie fiorentine (p. 197). This work is followed Impresa di Pisa by Biagio Buonaccorsi (p. 205).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from title page for predominant work (p. i); title for second work from title page (p. 205), with variant form of title as caption title (p. 211).
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 121 + i (contemporary paper); [vi], 1-193, [194-236]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with 18th-century annotations in a second hand (p. 75). Notes in a similar hand on f. 22 and 119 of UPenn Ms. Codex 555 which says Ms. Codex 555 was owned by Cav. Ottavino Giuseppe de' Medici in 1747 "come il maggiore del Ramo il piú prossimo al Ramo Reale". Modern annotations in pencil in English.
Binding: 18th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Moderate oxidation of ink throughout, with some perforations in several folios.
Origin: Written in Florence in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
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. 169 (Ms. Lea 103).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 566
Contains:
Buonaccorsi, Biagio, 1471-1522 or 1523. Impresa di Pisa.
Impresa fatta da. signori fiorentini l'anno MD per l'espugnazione di Pisa.
OCLC:
155966499