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MEDICI RECORDS
Catalogue reference: MDC
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This record is about the MEDICI RECORDS dating from 11th-18th centuries.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MDC
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Title (The name of the record)
- MEDICI RECORDS
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Date (When the record was created)
- 11th-18th centuries
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Description (What the record is about)
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Documents from the archives of the younger branch of the Florentine family of Medici, formerly in the possession of the Marquis Cosimo and the Marquis Averardo de' Medici. They include a grant from Pietro di Pietro Petroni to the church and monastery of St Barnabas of Gamungno, Faenza, in 1085; a papal bull of Pope Pius II to the Archdeacon of Florence concerning the foundation of a canonry in the church of San Lorenzo, 1462; a letter from Pope Leo X to Zanobi de' Medici, 1521; credentials of Francesco de' Medici as envoy of Pope Clement VII to Charles de Bourbon, Count of Saint Pol, 1529; letters from Francesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Raffaello de' Medici, 1575-1577; letters from Ferdinando I, Duke of Florence, to the Marquis Biagio Capizucchi in Avignon and others, 1589-1608; and numerous medieval and post-medieval grants, letters patent, court orders, records of judgements, agreements, correspondence and accounts.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
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Language (The language of the record)
- English, Italian, Latin
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <famname>Medici family of Florence, Italy</famname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 198 Files
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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In each entry, the accession number [R-----] and any original numbering given by the various keepers of the Medici archives in the 17th and 18th centuries, can be found in 'Archival History'
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>Published handlist, Robert Fawtier, Handlist of Charters, Deeds, and Similar. Documents in the Possession of the John Rylands Library, vol. 1 (Manchester, 1925).</p>
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/4956837e-3e20-48a7-a1d8-e1d967617af9/
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MEDICI RECORDS