The manuscript later belonged to the Gaddi family (hence the "Gaddiano" name),Wierda, 157 descended from the 13th-century artist Gaddo Gaddi, and by the 16th century prominent in banking and the church. Contemporary members included Cardinals Niccolò Gaddi and Taddeo Gaddi, and the priest Giovanni Gaddi, the last a courtier in Florence at the time, and friend of Vasari and Benvenuto Cellini.Wierda, 164 It entered the collection of Antonio Magliabechi, which became the core of the Florentine public library.DAH
