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

Title

Cronaca, e leggende inedite Faentine

Call number

Ms. Codex 420
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486591
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486591

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with copies of some documents in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1778

Place

Italy

Summary

History of Faenza from 1218-17-- , based on earlier chronicles, includes church history, descriptions of Rogation Day processions, lists of lawyers and doctors, legends of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, lives and miracles of local saints. Numerous corrections, emendations throughout in a second hand, may have been a printer's copy, but does not appear to have been published.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. ii recto).
   
• Incipit: Sito della città (f. 1r).
   

Extent

154 leaves : 297 x 204 (248 x 161) mm. bound to 307 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, 154; [v], 1-150, [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half leather.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with numerous corrections and notes in a second hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Festivals--Italy--Faenza
• Saints--Legends

Genres

• Codices
• Chronicles
• Hagiographies
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 4r — Finding tab, f. 4r
• fol. 11r — Finding tab, f. 11r
• fol. 98r — Finding tab, f. 98r
• fol. 104r — Finding tab, f. 104r