Details

Subjects:

Ferdinando III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1769-1824.
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1747-1792.
Medici, House of.
Florence (Italy) -- History.
Florence (Italy) -- Religious life and customs.
Tuscany (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Chronicles.
Gazetteers (dictionaries)
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

A collection of Florentine ephemera, in no particular order, but more chronological toward the end. The monuments and churches of Florence are thoroughly covered, and the treatment of the reigns of the Hapsburg Grand Dukes (1765-ca. 1793 when the book comes to an end) is also extensive, especially in the area of civic ritual and festival. Other topics include politics, crime, plagues and natural disasters, wars, religious orders, confraternities, local families, local miracles, etc. Several prayers for specific feast days are entered in the text. Length of entries varies from a few sentences to several pages. Table of contents at the beginning (p. i-xii) bound in at a slightly later date.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading (p. i).
Pagination: Paper, 257, i (contemporary paper); [xii], 1-499; irregular contemporary pagination in ink, [1-514], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in at least three different hands, on various sizes and types of paper.
Binding: Contemporary parchment, torn in a number of places, cover nearly detached, some leaves detached. Manuscript is fragile, with severe oxidation of ink on several folios and stains and tears in others.
Origin: Written in Florence, 1793 is the last date in the text, appears to have been compiled in the 1780s and 1790s.

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 102 Italian).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 565.

OCLC:

503302602

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