Details

Other Title:

Cronica di Venetia.

Subjects:

Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1508-1797.
Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Chronicles.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian; mottoes or epitaphs in Latin.

Summary:

List of the doges of Venice, together with depictions of their coats of arms. Compiled in or shortly after 1556, ending on f. 48r with the name of Laurentio Prioli (1556-1559); continued in different hands in the seventeenth century down to 8 April 1658. Includes an index (f. ii recto-iv verso).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r). Spine title: Cronica de Venetia.
Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 67 + i (later paper); [iv], 1-57, [58-63]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 59-63 are blank.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several different hands.
Decoration: Colored coats of arms, on the verso of most numbered folios, opposite the text description of the doge to whom the coat of arms belongs. Title page has a colorful, elaborately decorated border. Red used for the mottoes or epitaphs that accompany the accounts of many of the doges.
Binding: Quarter vellum and boards, later in date than the manuscript. On many leaves the oxidation of the ink and corrosiveness of the paint have begun to eat through the paper; on some folios the damage is rather advanced.
Origin: Written in Venice, 1556-1658 (f. 48r, 58r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover) and Essington manuscript library (no. 139; bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Mediolanum, 1953.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 96 (Ms. Italian 19).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 261

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.

OCLC:

155964210