Strozzi family. Manuscripts of the Strozzi family

Folger bibliographic ID: 244285
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Folger holdings ID: 309418

Collection of 17th and 18th century transcripts made for the Strozzi family of Florence of political and religious material, relating to papal diplomacy, etc., of documents dating from the 14th century through the 17th century, with the bulk dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A note in volume 1 states that the manuscripts came from Rome, from the archives of the Strozzi house, and indicates that the series is incomplete, as may be seen from the lower series of numbers on the spines of the volumes. A note at the end of volume 7 may indicate that the Barberini family also had some part in the collection of these manuscripts. The date of the making of these transcripts is not recorded. An indice de manoscritti, che sono nella libreria dell'Illustrissimo ... Lorenzo Strozzi, duca di Bagnolo e principe di Torano compilati per ordine di Alfabeto, 1728, (volume 199) reveals that the collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library forms a large part of the manuscripts listed in it. The call numbers in the index refer to the upper initial (each of which represents a certain class of document) and the lowest numeral on the spine and a comparative list of the former and present call numbers is tipped into the back of this index. Volumes 1-185 were already so numbered when received. Volumes 186 -199 have since been assigned these numbers arbitrarily, as those they had sometimes overlapped with the first series

General notes

In Italian, with Latin, French and Spanish Each volume has been cataloged separately

Publications

Calendar of the Strozzi transcripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library ... / by John L. Lievsay. Washington, DC, 1977

Extended title: Manuscripts of the Strozzi family 17th and 18th century
Alternate titles: Strozzi manuscripts

Strozzi family Papacy Nobility Ambassadors Europe Italy Venice (Italy)

author: Strozzi family
subject: Strozzi family
former owner: Strozzi family
former owner: Barberini family