Montalbodo

Fragment of a chronicle of the town of Montalbodo: in Italian. The fragment begins with an account of a grain famine in 1504-05 and a drought in 1507. Some leaves are missing, and the next entries date from 1517 to 1528. They include an account of the siege of the town in 1517, a plague in 1527, floods in 1526, a note on the sack of Rome in 1527, and a famine in 1528.

c. 1530

1 volume 11 ll. 8vo. 22 x 141/2 cm. Modern paper covers. Some leaves are wanting after the second leaf: the beginning is missing.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1934.

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).