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

Title

Chronicle

Call number

Ms. Codex 754
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155905523
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487586

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1464 and 1476

Place

Florence?

Summary

Chronicle of world history (lacking 2 or more leaves at the beginning) starting with the year 28 A.D. and ending in 1448, with additions in a different hand to 1476.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit: Pontius pillatus [sic] procurator Iudee mittitur a Tiberio.
   

Extent

57 leaves : 211 x 141 (110 x 80) mm. bound to 218 x 150 mm

Foliation

i (modern paper) + 57 + i (modern paper); 3-59; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand.

Provenance

• Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H.P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
   
• Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 182.
   
• Sold by H.P. Kraus (New York), 1962.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• History
• Christian
• Italy
• Chronicle

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