Details

Subjects:

Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.
Sacro militare ordine di Santo Stefano papa e martire.
Ambassadors -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 17th century.
Military religious orders -- Italy -- Florence.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Military religious orders.
Ambassadors.
Italy.
Civil law -- Italy.
Civil law.
Florence (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- France.
Florence (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Venice.
Florence (Italy) -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Papal States.
Italy -- Florence.
Italy -- Tuscany.

Form/Genre:

Receipts.
Accounts.
Inventories.
Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In Italian, French, and Latin.

Summary:

Approximately 100 (largely original, but with some copies) legal documents, accounts, and letters, covering the years 1636-1713, concerning the affairs of various members of the Gondi family, principally Giovanbattista (a senator and a balì, a prestigious office within the order of Santo Stefano), and Federigo Gondi, their business and diplomatic activities, and their relationship with the French court and aristocracy, especially the Codony family, French aristocrats close to Louis XIV. Other documents include travel expenses; legal documents concerning a charitable institution in Pienza; and an inventory.

Notes:

These documents have been disbound from a heavy paper cover with the pages of the documents numbered consecutively throughout the volume. The cover is stored with the documents.

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 (4), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 1, p. 9 (Ms. Lea 520).

Contributor:

Gondi, Giovanbattista.
Gondi, Ferdinando.
Codony, Selvaggia.
Codony, Arrigo.
Codony, Giovanbattista.
Alenc̜on, Francesco Giuseppe di Guisa d'.

OCLC:

604932115