Vita di Bartolommeo di Meo di Taldo di Valore Rustichelli..

Contributor:

Stufa, Piero della (translator)

Name:

Robbia, Luca di Simone della

Timespan:

1492-1559

Date:

1600

Description:

Valori was a pro-Imperial Florentine aristocrat who supported Pope Clement VII, Alessandro de' Medici, and the Medici family's claims to power in the struggles after the 1527 sack of Rome. In 1535, however, he left Florence to join the republican exiles. He was captured at the 1537 Battle of Montemurlo and soon after executed with his sons by Duke Cosimo I.

Language:

Italian

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 584-2.; Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 6126.; Purchased, 1968.; North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Subject:

Valori, Bartolomeo, -1537; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Biographies (literary works); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

64 leaves : paper; 268 x 186 (217 x 142) mm bound to 278 x 201 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- History -- 1492-1559; Italy; Florence (Italy) -- History

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f.186r). Title on spine: Vita di Bartolo.Valore.; Incipit: La città di Firenze...; Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 64 + i (modern paper); 186-249; foliated in ink in a contemporary hand, bottom center recto. Catchwords on lower right verso.; Layout: Written in 18 lines.; Script: Written in cursive script in one hand, the same as that of Ms. Codex 460.; Binding: 19th century half morocco.; Origin: Written in Florence [?], ca. 1600.; Presumably originally bound with preceding Ms. Codex 460.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 461