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

BIB_ID
103011
Accession number
MA 3231
Creator
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Display Date
[ca. 1548].
Credit line
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."
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.
One leaf partly torn away.
With 2 pages of annotations in an unknown hand on an inner wrapper.
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.