BIB_ID
398461
Accession number
MA 2691.61
Creator
Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
Display Date
1554 June 20.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 28.5 x 21.2 cm
Notes
Recipient inferred from a loose original paper seal.
Addressed to Giulio da Montevecchio in Val d'Elsa.
Residual wax.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis inscribed in a circle (Briquet, 7102).
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Addressed to Giulio da Montevecchio in Val d'Elsa.
Residual wax.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis inscribed in a circle (Briquet, 7102).
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Summary
Thanking Giulio da Montevecchio upon catching Jacomo del Maso, banned from the state for homicide, and asking him to send him to Florence in case he would ask to serve in the army; telling him that the prisoner in Monteriggioni taken by Captain Marcantonio da Rieti should stay with his captor for his own use.
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