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Title

Cronica di tutti li Dogi di Venetia sino á quello che hora vive, con le armi loro

Other related names

• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 261
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904419
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580876

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian; mottoes or epitaphs in Latin

Origin

Date

1556-1658

Place

Venice

Summary

List of the doges of Venice, together with depictions of their coats of arms. Compiled in or shortly after 1556, ending on f. 48r with the name of Laurentio Prioli (1556-1559); continued in different hands in the seventeenth century down to 8 April 1658. Includes an index (f. ii recto-iv verso).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r). Spine title: Cronica de Venetia.
   

Extent

67 leaves : 203 x 150 (152 x 100) mm. bound to 211 x 156 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (later paper) + 67 + i (later paper); [iv], 1-57, [58-63]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 59-63 are blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter vellum and boards, later in date than the manuscript. On many leaves the oxidation of the ink and corrosiveness of the paint have begun to eat through the paper; on some folios the damage is rather advanced.

Decoration

Colored coats of arms, on the verso of most numbered folios, opposite the text description of the doge to whom the coat of arms belongs. Title page has a colorful, elaborately decorated border. Red used for the mottoes or epitaphs that accompany the accounts of many of the doges.

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by several different hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover) and Essington manuscript library (no. 139; bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Mediolanum, 1953.
   

Genres

• Codices
• Chronicles
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Chronicle
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 3v
• fol. 4v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 6v
• fol. 7v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 7v
• fol. 8v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 8v
• fol. 9v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 9v
• fol. 10v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 10v
• fol. 11v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 12v
• fol. 13v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 13v
• fol. 14v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 14v
• fol. 15v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 15v
• fol. 16v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 17v
• fol. 18v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 18v
• fol. 19v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 19v
• fol. 20v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 21v
• fol. 22v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 23v
• fol. 24v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 24v
• fol. 25v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 25v
• fol. 26v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 26v
• fol. 27v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 27v
• fol. 28v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 28v
• fol. 29v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 29v
• fol. 30v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 30v
• fol. 31v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 31v
• fol. 32v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 32v
• fol. 33v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 33v
• fol. 34v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 34v
• fol. 35v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 35v
• fol. 36v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 36v
• fol. 37v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 37v
• fol. 38v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 38v
• fol. 39v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 39v
• fol. 40v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 41v
• fol. 42v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 42v
• fol. 43v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 43v
• fol. 44v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 44v
• fol. 45v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 45v
• fol. 46v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 46v
• fol. 47v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 47v
• fol. 48v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 48v
• fol. 49v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 49v
• fol. 50v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 50v
• fol. 51v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 51v
• fol. 52v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 52v
• fol. 53v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 53v
• fol. 54v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 54v
• fol. 55v — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 55v