'Avvertimenti della Gran Duchessa di Toscana per la gravidezza della Signora Duchessa d'Urbino.'

Date:
24 December 1604
Reference:
MS.5862/1
Part of:
Italian Medical Miscellany, 17th-19th Century
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Description

Advice on pregnancy given by Christine, wife of Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Livia della Rovere, Duchess of Urbino, when pregnant with Federico Ubaldo Della Rovere. The cover page contains an inscription erroneously addressing the letter to Christine's daughter, Claudia; she would later marry Federico becoming the next Duchess of Urbino.

Publication/Creation

24 December 1604

Physical description

2 ff. Copy.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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