Details

Subjects:

Medici, Giovanni Giacomo de', marchese di Marignano, 1495-1555.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Biographies (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Account of the life and death of Giovanni Giacomo de' Medici, marquis of Marignano, who led the armies of Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, in the war against Siena, 1552-1554, and was responsible for the defeat of general Piero Strozzi.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 160r).
Incipit: Fra il marchese di Marignano... (f. 160r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 25 + i (modern paper); 160-184; contemporary foliation in ink, bottom center recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, which appears to be the same hand as in Ms. Codex 461.
Binding: Modern half morocco.
Origin: Written in Florence[?], ca. 1600.
Presumably originally bound with Ms. Codex 461.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover); sold in the Guilford library at auction at Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 281-1.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7513 (shelf mark, inside upper cover).
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. 9 (Ms. Italian 236).
See Missaglia, Marco Antonio. Vita di Gio. Iacomo Medici marchese di Marignano (Milano: Pietromartire Locarni, & Girolamo Bordoni, 1605).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 460

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

155969724