Historia de Papa Allexandro et Phridrico Barba Rossa.
- Publication:
- [Venice], [between 1525 and 1575]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
10 leaves : paper ; 119 x 145 (166 x 120) mm bound to 196 x 145 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
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- Other Title:
- Historia de PP. Alessandro III et fedrico Barba Rossa I Imperatore de Romani.
Hec sunt iurisditiones, et regalie quibus Urbs Veneta claruit donis ab Alexandro qui tertius fuit papa. - Subjects:
- Alexander III, Pope, -1181.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, approximately 1123-1190.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- 12th century.
Catholic Church.
International relations.
Holy Roman Empire -- History. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance. - Language:
- Italian, with short introduction in Latin.
- Summary:
- Account of Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa). Text occupies f. 2r-5v; f. 6-10 are blank.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Cover title: Historia de PP. Alessandro III et Fedrico Barba Rossa I Imperatore de Romani.
Alleged to be a copy of the original found in the Venetian chancellery archives by a secretary and presented to the Doge, Francesco Dona; the copy was made at the request of Pietro Morro.
Subscription after title on f. 2r: Fu trovata da un secretario che haveva carico di regolar le scritture antiche della Duchal cancellaria di Venetia et prensentada [sic] al Serr.mo. Prin.pe Dno. Franc.o. Dona dove e sta tratta la presente copia nella istessa lengua et forma in tuto como gtta. et ame. mandata da M. Pietro Morro familiar del sudetto Principe Dona.
Incipit (f. 3r): Hec sunt iurisditiones, & regalie quibus urbs Veneta claruit donis ab Alexandro qui tertius fuit papa anno mileno centeno septeno in quo regnabat Cesar Augustus scilicit Barba Rossa vocatus ...
Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except possibly for the title and title-page subscription.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Venice in the middle of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Cover worn and abraded; cover title partly worn away. Folios 6-9 are uncut at the top. Some stains and smudges. Indications of possible slight worm and mouse damage. - Penn Provenance:
- Acquired, 1959.
- 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. 102 (Ms. Italian 47).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 289
- OCLC:
- 305119912