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[Chronicle].

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 754
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Language:
Latin
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Genre:
Penn Provenance:
  • Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H.P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
  • Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 182.
  • Sold by H.P. Kraus (New York), 1962.
Physical Description:
57 leaves : paper ; 211 x 141 (110 x 80) mm bound to 218 x 150 mm
Place of Publication:
[Florence?], [between 1464 and 1476]
Language Note:
Latin.
Summary:
Chronicle of world history (lacking 2 or more leaves at the beginning) starting with the year 28 A.D. and ending in 1448, with additions in a different hand to 1476. Begins with events from the Gospels and Acts; includes notes on non-Christian authors such as Statius; on Roman emperors, particularly as they play a role in Christian history; on Popes, on early church fathers and saints, on Church councils, including Niceae; on the fall of Rome; monastic orders; on the Saracens taking Jerusalem; astronomical observations; on the Crusades; military events in Italy; famines and plagues; and Italian literary history, including Dante and Petrarch.
Notes:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
  • Incipit: Pontius pillatus [sic] procurator Iudee mittitur a Tiberio.
  • Foliation: i (modern paper) + 57 + i (modern paper); 3-59; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
  • Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
  • Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
  • Binding: Modern boards.
  • Origin: Written in Florence[?] between 1464 and 1476 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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. 39 (Ms. Latin 169).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 754.
OCLC:
155985563

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