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

Title

Fasciculus temporum.

Authors

• Rolevinck, Werner, 1425-1502

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 725
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78370354
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gp1m

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

after 1471

Place

Italy

Summary

World and church history to the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, with diagrams and drawings throughout the text. The first printed edition was published in Cologne in 1474; in editions published in 1479, the election of Sixtus IV in 1471 is mentioned within a longer entry for 1474 that is not present in this manuscript.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note in a later hand with the title Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum (inside upper cover).
   
• Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Griffon 7465 (Florence, 1464).

Extent

40 leaves : 417 x 273 mm bound to 429 x 286 mm

Foliation

Paper, 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, rebacked.

Decoration

Illustrated with numerous drawings and diagrams in ink, with history laid out in linear diagrams, some illustrations colored by hand (for example, f. 3v, 4r, 6v, 9v, 11r, 16v).

Script

Written in humanistic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Nardecchia (Rome), 1956.
   

Subjects topical

• World history--Early works to 1800
• World history
• Church history--Early works to 1800
• Church history

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• drawings (visual works)
• Chronologies
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Diagrams
• Drawing
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• Christian
• History

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 3r — Illustration, Noah's Ark, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Illustration, Tower of Babel, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Illustration, Assyrian city, f. 4r
• fol. 6v — Illustration, Temple of Solomon, f. 6v
• fol. 9v — Illustration, Rome, f. 9v
• fol. 11r — Illustration, Temple, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 24r — Manicule, f. 24r
• fol. 28r — Manicule, f. 28r
• fol. 29v — Manicule, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Manicule, f. 30r