| Item Description: | Unpublished manuscript, folio format, foliated from 12 to 333 (fol. 279 repeated), starting with the title page on folio 12 recto; written on both sides in professional hand; with 24 marginal notes in light brown ink by Giov. Bandini, a diplomat in Aldobrandini's service. - 17th century flexible full vellum binding; on the spine, in brown ink, "Viaggi de' Card. Alessandrino Aldobrandino con note di D. Giov.i Bandino," and shelf mark CXXI in same ink; two other shelf labels pasted on spine; bookplate of Giannalisa Feltrinelli on the front pastedown. Modern pencil inscriptions on front and back endpapers; one on the front reads: Phillipps Ms. 6046. The title page (fol. 12) is the first leaf of the second fascicle. The first fascicle of 11 numbered leaves has been extracted since the Phillipps sale in 1913 (cf. Robin Halvas). - There were a number of copies of Agucchi's diary in the libraries of the principal Italian families (now migrated mostly into public collections), the prototype version being considered the one at the Vatican (cf. Robin Halwas)
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