Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Chronica summorum pontificum et imperatorum romanorum (Chronicle of Popes and Emperors)

Authors

• Continuator of Martin of Troppau

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 68
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 186

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a chronicle of popes and emperors.

Extent

Ii+25+ii; 317 x 210 mm bound to 320 x 215 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain; may have been originally collated in gatherings of twelve

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern English half brown morocco (Wolf: 'levant')

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; two columns of variable lines ranging from twenty to sixty; names are contained in circles in the center of the two columns; written area: 260-70 x 160 mm

Decoration

One four-line initial in red; rubrication throughout; names and circles in red; marginalia throughout; dates given in red upper corner recto

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Sir Thomas Phillips (early purchase, but not identifiable in his sale catalogues); Davis & Orioli, Cat. 19, June 1917, n. 3; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Chronicle
• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Gothic
• History

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