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[Vitae episcoporum et patriarcharum aquileiensium].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 934
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Bishops--Biography.
- Catholic Church.
- Bishops.
- Aquileia (Italy)--History--To 1500.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- biographies (literary genre)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover); A. N. L. Munby (bookplate, inside upper cover); C. W. Previté-Orton (signature, inside upper cover).
- Formerly in the collection of Jacopo Soranzo (Mitchell).
- Sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1835 (Mitchell) to Sneyd.
- Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 37.
- Sold by Alan G. Thomas (Bournemouth), 1959.
- Physical Description:
- 42 leaves : paper ; 194 x 145 (145 x 95) mm bound to 200 x 150 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Venice], [between 1450 and 1500]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Brief lives of the bishops and patriarchs of Aquileia (referred to as Aquilegia in the text) from the first century A.D. to the year 1411.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by catalogers based on the version published in Muratori's Rerum Italicorum Scriptores, 1730.
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 42 + iii (modern paper); [iii], 16-24, [ii], 25-52; contemporary Roman foliation, upper center recto.
- Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
- Script: Written in a humanistic script.
- Decoration: Alternating red and blue 2-line initials throughout.
- Binding: Half-leather (Zacour-Hirsch) with modern boards.
- Origin: Written in Italy, possibly in Venice (Zacour-Hirsch), in the second half of the 15th century.
- 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. 33 (Ms. Latin 143).
- Printed version of a manuscript of a similar text in Muratori, Rerum Italicorum Scriptores (Milan, 1730), vol. 16
- See Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ...," The Bodleian Library Record, Vol. VIII, no. 3 (February 1969), p. 125-135
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 934
- OCLC:
- 155925490
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