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Letter to Paolo Maffei
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Letter to Paolo Maffei

correspondent (Florence, 1483 - 1540, Florence)
Date8 April 1538
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions28.3 x 21 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.b.3.3.8
eMuseum ID727092
Previous Number39F27e42-s
EmbARK ObjectID12559
TMS Source ID1639
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotes
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 251.
Seymour De Ricci with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York,1935-40), I, p. 935, no. 35. 

ProvenanceNotes
Collection of Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton in 1908. (for a bound set of 8 letters)