Historia de Papa Allexandro et Phridrico Barba Rossa.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander III, Pope, -1181.

Alexander.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, approximately 1123-1190.

Frederick.

Catholic Church--Foreign relations--12th century.

Catholic Church.

International relations.

Holy Roman Empire--History.

Holy Roman Empire.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1959.

Physical Description:

10 leaves : paper ; 119 x 145 (166 x 120) mm bound to 196 x 145 mm

Other Title:

Historia de PP. Alessandro III et fedrico Barba Rossa I Imperatore de Romani.

Hec sunt iurisditiones, et regalie quibus Urbs Veneta claruit donis ab Alexandro qui tertius fuit papa.

Place of Publication:

[Venice], [between 1525 and 1575]

Language Note:

Italian, with short introduction in Latin.

Summary:

Account of Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa). Text occupies f. 2r-5v; f. 6-10 are blank.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 2r).

Cover title: Historia de PP. Alessandro III et Fedrico Barba Rossa I Imperatore de Romani.

Alleged to be a copy of the original found in the Venetian chancellery archives by a secretary and presented to the Doge, Francesco Dona; the copy was made at the request of Pietro Morro.

Subscription after title on f. 2r: Fu trovata da un secretario che haveva carico di regolar le scritture antiche della Duchal cancellaria di Venetia et prensentada [sic] al Serr.mo. Prin.pe Dno. Franc.o. Dona dove e sta tratta la presente copia nella istessa lengua et forma in tuto como gtta. et ame. mandata da M. Pietro Morro familiar del sudetto Principe Dona.

Incipit (f. 3r): Hec sunt iurisditiones, & regalie quibus urbs Veneta claruit donis ab Alexandro qui tertius fuit papa anno mileno centeno septeno in quo regnabat Cesar Augustus scilicit Barba Rossa vocatus ...

Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except possibly for the title and title-page subscription.

Binding: Contemporary vellum.

Origin: Written in Venice in the middle of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cover worn and abraded; cover title partly worn away. Folios 6-9 are uncut at the top. Some stains and smudges. Indications of possible slight worm and mouse damage.

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. 102 (Ms. Italian 47).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 289

OCLC:

305119912