Vita Alfonsi Atestini Ferrariae Ducis : manuscript : [Como], [ca. 1548].

Record ID: 
103011
Accession number: 
MA 3231
Author: 
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Credit: 
Purchased, 1979.
Description: 
1 item (24 p.) ; 43.7 cm
Notes: 

According to a copy of the bookseller's description, included in the folder, this manuscript is an "early draft, differing greatly from the printed text."
One leaf partly torn away.
With 2 pages of annotations in an unknown hand on an inner wrapper.
According to the bookseller's description of the manuscript, a four-line epitaph of Giovio in a scribal hand is inscribed at the foot of one sheet.

Summary: 

Being an biography of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476-1534), a manuscript on paper, party autograph and partly in secretarial hands, including the hand of his nephew, Luigi Raimondi, with autograph revisions.

Housed in: 
Red cloth folder.