Lettera a Madama Cristina di Lorena, Granduchessa di Toscana.
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
58 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 218 x 157 (158 x 109) mm bound to 222 x 162 mm - Production:
- [Italy], [after 1615]
- Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3n87307x - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy.
Religion and science -- Early works to 1800.
Religion and science.
Criticism and interpretation. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Italian, with a few quotations in Latin.
- Summary:
- Letter to Maria Cristina, consort of Ferdinand I, de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in defense of the Copernican system. Cf. his Opera, v. 5 (Florence, 1895), pp. 307-348. This may perhaps be one of a number of manuscript copies, not in Galileo's hand, which were circulated among scholars.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, no overall title in manuscript.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 59 + i (modern paper); [1-59]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.
Layout: Written in 18 lines.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Engraved portrait of Galilei (Piroli sc.) inserted as frontispiece.
Binding: Half vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1615 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Alla serenissima madama la Gran Duchessa... - Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Francis Campbell Macauley (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- 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. 118 (Ms. Italian 128).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 369
- Contributor:
- Christine, of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1565-1636, addressee.
Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner. - OCLC:
- 155968562