Details

Subjects:

Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585.
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- 1517-1648 -- Sources.
Florence (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Letters.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian, some of the letters are in Spanish.

Contents:

1. f.2r-28r: Lettere di diversi principi ... Monsr. Cirillo ... à Monsr. Mutio Calino [e rispòsta].
2. f.28r-30r: Al Sor. Duca di Savoia [il Duca di Fiorenza, e rispòsta].
3. f.30r-32r: Massimiliano imperatore a Sacro Collegio de Cardinali.
4. f.32r-38r: Ferdinandus imperatore Cosimo duci Florentie.
5. f.38r-43r: Carta escritta ... de su Md. Cattca. a la Sta. de Pio V. [e a la Reyne de Portugal] sobre la prision del Prin. Don Carlo.
6. f.44r-49v: Il Re Catteo à Dona Caterina di Braganza [e rispòsta].
7. f.49v-50v: [idem] al Duca di Braganza [e rispòsta].
8. f.51r-52v: Respca Gennen. Greg. XIIIo.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 52; 74-124, contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center; , 1-52, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, late 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1968.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 8 (Ms. Italian 231).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 456

Contributor:

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576.

OCLC:

155969632