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- Call number
- *Pforz BT (Cenci) 01
- Physical description
- [44] pages (23 total leaves), 21 cm; [44] pages (23 total leaves), 21 cm
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
Manuscript account of the murder of Francesco Cenci by Beatrice Cenci and her siblings; copied in the hand of the English painter and antiquarian Seymour Stocker Kirkup, from a manuscript collated with the original sixteenth-century codex in the Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome. Preceded by an excised and mounted armorial engraving with Kirkup's note, "Questo foglio fu brovato dal Signor Stefano Audin, in Firenze, 1840, sopra la guardia da un libro. Francesco era il nome del padre della celebre Beatrice Cenci di Roma in 1595." Bound in later 19th century half-calf with marbled boards, spine gilt.
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319