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Title

Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del Cassaro Anconitano...etc.

Authors

• Biagio, Oddo di
• Boncompagno, da Signa, ca. 1165-ca. 1240
• Dandolo, Andrea, ca. 1307-1354
• Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406

Other related names

• Williams, John Camp, 1859?-1929, former owner
• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 983
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9936632903503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79414247
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3663290

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian and Latin

Origin

Date

between 1466 and 1499?

Place

Ancona?

Summary

Collection of historical accounts of the sieges of Ancona. The main work (ff. 25r-130r) is Biagio's account of the construction, siege, and destruction of the citadel of Ancona between 1348 and 1383. The main work is preceded by an Italian translation of Boncompagno's Latin work on the siege of 1174, with the translation attributed to Biagio, as well as Italian translations of two shorter passages on Ancona. A note laid in by an unidentified mid-19th century English owner describes one of these as "enlarged extracts from the Doge Andrea Dandolo" (f. 17r); the other is attributed in the text to "Meser Francesco Petrarcha nel suo libro de la imperatori et pontifici" (f. 21r). At the end of the volume is a copy of the Latin text of the letter from the Florentines to the people of Ancona, written by Coluccio Salutati, offering congratulations for the victory of 1383, with its conclusion missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for predominant work from caption title (f. 25r) used for whole volume.
   
• Notes on this codex by an unidentified mid-19th century English owner, Giuseppe Martini, and the firm of H. P. Kraus are on file at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   

Extent

134 leaves : 208 x 140 (158 x 80) mm. bound to 208 x 150 mm

Collation

Paper, 134, fol. [ii] + 21 + [iii, blank] + 22-129; 11 quires, numbered 4 through 14, of 12 pages each, with a catchword on the lower inner corner of the last page of each quire (including the present last leaf of the codex).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 23 or 24 long lines.

Script

Written in a near-humanistic hand (Kraus).

Provenance

• Formerly part of the Rosenheim Collection, No. B26 (round paper label, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Camp Williams (bookplate, inside front cover, red diamond with a gilt peacock and motto, Cognosce occasionem).
   
• Sold at auction at the American Art Association, 6-8 Nov. 1929, no. 112; purchased by Lathrop C. Harper and transferred to Giuseppe Martini.
   
• Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H. P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
   
• Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Sieges--Early works to 1800
• Sieges--Italy--Ancona

Genres

• Chronicles
• Codices
• Histories
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• History
• Chronicle

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De una aspera obsidione facta contra Ancona per mare et per terra per li Venetiani, f. 1r
• fol. 17r — De una contraversia bellicosa tra li Anconitani et Venetiani, f. 17r
• fol. 21r — Ancona da li Saraceni fu oppugnata, f. 21r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner note, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 8v — Manicule, f. 8v