Wednesday Primary Source #8 - convent register

A manuscript volume containing biographical information about the nuns of the Santa Maria Annuciata delle Murate in Florence, 1629-1809. Catherine de' Medeci had stayed here in the 16th century.

You can find the location of the convent (and many other buildings, streets, and neighborhoods) on Brown University's "online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence :
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/florentine_gazetteer/

Organization: Santa Maria Annunciata della Murate (Convent :
                    Florence, Italy)
Title: Vita e morte, 1629-1809.
Physical Description: 1 v. (149 leaves)
Summary: Biographical details, including date of birth and of
entry to the convent, names of parents, and date of
death.  The second of two volumes, the first probably
lost or stolen as a result of political turmoil.
Note: A Benedictine convent of about 250 sisters.
Note: Phillipps MS 22159; purchased by Stanford, 1990.
Subject (LC): Santa Maria delle Annunziate
Subject (LC): Benedictine nuns--Italy--Florence.
Subject (LC): Convents--Florence.
Subject (LC): Monasticism and religious orders for women.
Subject (LC): Women.
Subject (LC): Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
Subject (LC): Florence (Italy)--History--1737-1860.
Title: Santa Maria Annunciata della Murate Obituarium.
Title: Obituarium S. Maria de Florencia.
Title: Santa Maria delle Annunziate.

SPEC-COLL CALL NUMBER          COPY  LOCATION                        
1)MSS CODEX M0544 F CB        1   MANUSCRIPT