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Title

Excerpts from De viris illustribus (On Famous Men); Excerpts from the Supplementum chronicarum; Excerpts from the Vita Henrici Quinti (Life of Henry V); Excerpts from works on Venice; Rumores e venetiis allati...

Authors

• Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520 (https://viaf.org/viaf/59178285)
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. (https://viaf.org/viaf/64002165)
• Titus Livius of Forli (https://viaf.org/viaf/79274162)

Other related names

• Mayner, Joseph, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 139
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1852721
• deRicci: 187

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

England

Summary

This manuscript contains excerpts from De viris illustribus (On Famous Men); excerpts from the Supplementum chronicarum; excerpts from the Vita Henrici Quinti (Life of Henry V); excerpts from works on Venice; and Peter Carmelianus, Rumores e venetiis allati fidelissimis auctoribus.

Notes

• This text is bound at the end of an incunabulum; Wolf states: "these manuscript notes are bound after a copy of Robert Gaguin's Compendium super Francorum gestis, printed at Paris in 1500."
   

Extent

19+i; 252 x 190 mm bound to 263 x 200 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil upper right recto

Collation

Uncertain

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf, in cloth case (De Ricci: Late sixteenth-century English calf); boards detached

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead point; one column of 34-50 lines; written area: 205 x 140 mm

Decoration

One eleven-line initial in red; two-line initials in red; blank spaces left for initials

Script

Anglicana

Provenance

• Owned by Joseph Mayner of Exeter College, ca. 1600; Duke of Suffolk (not traced in his sales); sold by Rodd to Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1845, no. 11580 (not traced in his sales); London sale, no. 674; English bookseller's catalogue, no. 307; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), pp. 2059-60, no. 187.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 153-54, no. 139.

Keywords

• 16th century
• England
• History
• Chronicle
• Miscellany
• English

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Table of contents

• Lib.IX.Fo.XCVr — Excerpts from the works on Venice by Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus
• fol. 1r — Excerpts from the Supplementum chronicarum by Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo
• fol. 7r — Excerpts from the works on Venice by Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus
• fol. 10r — Peter Carmelianus, Rumores e venetiis allati fidelissimis auctoribus…
• fol. 16r — Excerpts from the Vita Henrici Quinti, by Titus Livius of Forli
• fol. 18v — Excerpts from De viris illustribus, by Giovanni Boccaccio

Decorations

• Unnumbered i recto — Large miniature
• Lib.VII.Fo.LXXIr — Manicule
• Lib.VII.Fo.LXXIIv — Manicule
• Unnumbered i recto — Large miniature
• fol. 1r — Eleven-line red initial O
• fol. 7r — Four-line red initial U