Lorenzo de' Medici Letter

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Title: Lorenzo de' Medici Letter
Alternate Title: Lettera di Lorenzo de' Medici
Author(s) / Contributor(s): de' Medici, Lorenzo
Date Issued: 1485-01-08
Summary: Signed letter, dated January 1, 1485 in Florence, from Lorenzo de' Medici, to the Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, regarding difficulties with the delivery of letters.
Region: Florence
Type of Resource: Manuscript document
Genre: Correspondence
Prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf; 23 x 21 cm
Material: Paper
Script: Humanistic
Topic: Autographs
Culture
Politics and government
Subject: Medici, house of
Sforza family
Correspondence
Notes: Layout: Text of 14 lines on recto, written in humanistic script in brown ink, signed "Ex(cellenza) V(ostra) S(ign)or Laure(n)tius d(e) Medicj"; address on verso "Ill(ustrissi)mo domino meo d(omi)no duci mediolani"; folded horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
Repository: The Newberry Library
Call Number: Newberry VAULT Case MS 101.1