[Partial Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum with continuations and list of bishoprics]

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Martinus, Polonus, -1279.

Contributor:

Howard, George James, Earl of Carlisle, 1843-1911, former owner.

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum. Selections

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Dioceses.

Catholic Church.

Papacy--History.

Papacy.

Holy Roman Empire--History.

Holy Roman Empire.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lists (document genres)

Annals and chronicles.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 13th century.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, held in the library of Castle Howard, North Yorkshire (The manuscripts of the Earl of Carlisle, preserved at Castle Howard, 1897), and possibly by earlier members of the family.

Offered for sale at an unidentified auction, 20th century, lot 246 (note in ink, front cover).

Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina, MLC 120 (label 120, front cover; pencil shelfmark MLC 120, f. 1r).

Sold at auction at Christie's (London), in the collection of Marvin L. Colker, 28 November-12 December 2022, lot 83.

Physical Description:

8 leaves : parchment ; 215 x 160 (175 x 125) mm bound to 225 x 170 mm.

Place of Publication:

[England], [1277?-1314?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Manuscript gathering, written in England in the last quarter of the 13th century, containing part of the Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum of Martinus Polonus and a list of dioceses. The history of the emperors is written on the recto pages and the popes on the verso pages, with running titles Imperatores and Pontifices in the upper margin. The beginning of the chronicle is missing; the extant text begins with Henry V (emperor 1111-1125) and Anastasius IV (pope 1153-1154) and continues to the end of the Chronicon with the death of King Louis (1270) and the accession of Pope Nicholas III (1277). The list of dioceses, written at the same time as the chronicle, is a reference work that appears with chronicles elsewhere; this copy is partial, breaking off in the dioceses of Judea and Palestine (f. 8v). Two continuations in darker ink added later to the chronicle extend the popes through Nicholas III and Martin IV (written after Martin's death in 1285, f. 6r) and Honorius IV (f. 6r) through Clement V (including his condemnation of the Knights Templar in 1311, f. 5v). One of these later hands may also be responsible for manicules and marginal notes in the chronicle, including notes flagging Saint Thomas à Becket (f. 2r), the foundation of the Dominican and Franciscan orders and the canonization of Saint Francis (f. 2v), and the canonization of Saint Clare (f. 3v).

Contents:

1. f.1r-6r: [Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum (partial, with continuations)] / [Martinus Polonus]

2. f.6v-8v: Isti sunt episcopi sub romano pontifice.

Notes:

Ms. gathering.

Title supplied by cataloger

Foliation: Parchment, 8; 1⁸; [1-8], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 36-41 long lines (f. 1r-6r) and 5 columns of 38 lines (f. 6v-8v); ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines in the first work (f. 1r-6r).

Script: Written in cursive anglicana script.

Decoration: Red initials and paragraph marks throughout; early reader manicules (f. 2r, 2v, 3v).

Binding: Modern parchment wrapper.

Origin: Written in England, the main text (Chronicon and list of bishoprics) between 1277 (accession of Pope Nicholas III, f. 6r) and 1285 (death of Pope Martin IV, not in the main text), with continuations written shortly after 1285 (f. 6r) and between 1311 and 1314 (f. 5v, 6r) (Christie's).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Cited in:

Listed in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fifteenth Report, Appendix, Part VI: The Manuscripts of the Earl of Carlisle, preserved at Castle Howard. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1897, p. 2.

Cited as:

Martinus Polonus, Partial Chronicon (Ms. Codex 2108). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1373363299