Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Vitae episcoporum et patriarcharum aquileiensium

Other related names

• Soranzo, Jacopo, 1686-1761, former owner
• Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner
• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner
• Munby, A. N. L. 1913-1974, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 934
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935652453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82287854
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3565245

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1500

Place

Venice

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.
   

Extent

42 leaves : 194 x 145 (145 x 95) mm. bound to 200 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 42 + iii (modern paper); [iii], 16-24, [ii], 25-52; contemporary Roman foliation, upper center recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half-leather (Zacour-Hirsch) with modern boards.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Alternating red and blue 2-line initials throughout.

Script

Written in a humanistic script.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Bishops--Biography

Genres

• Biographies
• Codices
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Christian
• Italian
• Paper
• Biography

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover