[Partial copy of Chronicon].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112.

Contributor:

Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

World history--Early works to 1800.

World history.

Genre:

chronicles

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1964.

Physical Description:

10 leaves : paper ; 263 x 190 mm bound to 218 x 155 mm

Other Title:

Initium Chronici Siceberti.

Place of Publication:

[Belgium], [between 1475 and 1499?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Beginning of Sigebert of Gembloux's continuation of the chronicle of Jerome, in which he traces the reigns of kings of various kingdoms. The last reference is to Pope Zosimus (417 CE; f. 6v).

Notes:

Ms. gathering.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 10; 1² 2⁸ (f. 7-10 blank).

Layout: Written in 47-50 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Script: Written in Gothic cursive script.

Decoration: 4-line initial (f. 2r) and 3-line initial (f. 1r) in red; paragraph marks in red followed by initials slashed with red on first page (f. 1r).

Binding: Bound with Strabo's Geographia (Paris: Gourmont, 1512) in 18th-century calf including gilt spine title Initium Chronic[i] Sicebert[i] MS.

Origin: Probably written in Belgium, possibly in Gembloux (inscription on title page of printed work, Bibliotheca Gemblacensis), in the late 15th century (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), Supplement A (1) Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 5 (Ms. Latin 203).

Related Work:

Sigebert, of Gembloux, approximately 1030-1112. Chronicon.

OCLC:

873818335