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Title

Historia Troiana

Authors

• Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent

Other related names

• Woodward, William Harrison, 1856-1941, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 841
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931779863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/188937745
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3177986

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

ca. 1370

Place

Northern Italy

Summary

Colonna's Historia Troiana, plus 2 unrelated decrees.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Author from explicit (f. 140r).
   
• Incipit (1st work): Etsi cotidie vetera recentibus obruantur...
   
• Explicit (1st work): Ego Guido de Columpna messana pridem ... Factum est autem presens opus domini incarnatione. Mille CCLXXXVIII eiusdem, prime indictionis. Amen. Deo Gratias. Explicit.
   

Extent

142 leaves : 276 x 213 (218 x 122) mm. bound to 285 x 216 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 142 + ii (modern paper); [1-142]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on the verso of every twelfth leaf, except for 60v.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern half-morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 31 long lines (f. 1r-141r).

Decoration

Red used for initials (sometimes additionally decorated with fine red or black flourishes), paragraph marks, and capital strokes in the main text.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script, with the main text written by a single hand, and the 2 decrees written by a second hand. Passages left blank in the main text were completed later by a 15th-century hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by William Harrison Woodward (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Goldschmidt, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Trojan War--Early works to 1800
• Illegitimacy--Italy
• Notaries--Italy
• Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Decrees
• Romances (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 141v — Decree legitimizing three illegitimate individuals, f. 141v
• fol. 142r — Decree creating a notary public and justice in ordinary, f. 142r

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 1v
• fol. 85r — Penwork initial, Initial H, f. 85r