Fondatione della città di Lucca et altre memorie sino al anno 1370.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Lucca (Italy)--History.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• chronicles
• Manuscripts, Italian.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by La Medicea (Florence), 1956.

Physical Description:

202 leaves : paper; 210 x 147 (183 x 120) mm bound to 225 x 160 mm

Other Title:

Croniche lucchesi.

Place of Publication:

[Lucca?], [between 1600 and 1699?]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Chronicle of the history of Lucca, in Italy. Part II, from p. 242, continues the chronicle from 1370 to 1609. The last page contains a few notes from the 18th century.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption title (p. 1); title written on lower part of spine: Croniche lucchesi (badly worn, hard to read).
• Pagination: Paper, i + 202 + ii; 1, [i], 2-368, [ii], 369-399, [ii]; contemporary or slightly later pagination in ink, upper outer corner.
• Script: Written in cursive script by several hands.
• Binding: Blind-stamped leather, possibly 18th century. The leaves are of several sizes, suggesting that the volume was written in segments and then gathered and bound.
• Origin: Written in Lucca[?] in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch), with a few 18th century additions.
• There is one leaf laid in between p. 77-78.
• Leather of cover crumbling in places. Back spine splitting. Many stains and smudges. Some leaves splitting and fraying at the edges. Some leaves have lost small amounts of text due to trimming.
• Typed transcription of first eight pages on file in the Library.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 96 (Ms. Italian 22).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 264.

OCLC:

155964216

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