Medici Family

Origine della Casa de' Medici. Vol. I, Dall'anno DCCC a MDXXXVI. With a folding genealogical tree in red and black. Vol. II. Dall'anno MCXXV a MDLXXXVII. Vol. III. Dall'anno MDCCXV a MDCCXXX. The latest date is 30 August 1731 (Vol. III, p. 271), and this MS. appears to have been written during the life-time of the disreputable Giovanni Gaston I [1671-1737].

c. 1735

3 volumes 3 vols. folio. 34 × 23 1/2 cm. Original half-vellum binding. The first (blank) leaf of Vol. I has been mutilated.

Purchased at Sotheby's 27/6/1919, Lot 815.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Armorial book-plate of the Honourable Frederic North afterwards 5th Earl of Guildford [1766-1827]. Phillipps MS. 7116.