IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 312718 accession number: MS.4-2023 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Friday 2 June 2023 updated: Monday 4 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Manuscript letter from René I (1409-1480), signed, relating to military campaigns in northern Italy, to Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, 12 October 1543. One page, oblong folio, address on verso. title: letter (correspondence) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s 21 November 1989, bought in; 8 July 1992 (General Books II), lot 901, purchased by Susan Tilby LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books creditline: Bequeathed by Dr Susan Tilby, 2023 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/312718 TECHNIQUES ---------- pen and ink TECHNIQUES ---------- handwritten CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript category: letter DATING ------ creation date: 1543 - 1543 creation date earliest: 1543 creation date latest: 1543 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem