Details

Other Title:

Papa Urbano IIII di na[tivita?] francese per la malignità di Manfredo.

Subjects:

Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- Anjou dynasty, 1268-1442.
Naples (Kingdom).
History.
Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- Spanish rule, 1442-1707.
Naples (Italy) -- History -- To 1503.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Chronicles.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Neapolitan chronicle starting with the Angevin conquest of the Sicilian kingdom in 1266 and recording events until 1478.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. iii).
Incipit (p. 1): Papa Urbano IIII di na[tivita?] francese per la malignità di Manfredo ...
Inscription at bottom of title page: "Da Ettore Capece Latro Napolitano"; this note is repeated on the title of an incomplete index table at the end (recto of folio following p. [178]). This note could be interpreted as indicating that a man of this name was the author. However it is more probable that the renowned jurist in Naples, Ettore Capece Latro, a member of a great patrician family, who died in 1654, copied the present manuscript from an earlier copy in the possession of the Dukes of Monteleone, perhaps in his youth.
Pagination: Paper, i (modern paper) + 93 + i (modern paper); [iv], 1-177, [178]; [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with various marginalia in what appears to be one or more different hands.
Decoration: Pen drawings of potted plants, etc. on title page and on recto of folio following p. [178].
Binding: Modern boards. Severe oxidation of ink; on some folios the paper has been eaten through. Various smudges and stains.
Origin: Written in Naples in the first half of 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Bookseller's notes (H. P. Kraus) on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. P. Kraus (New York), 1960.

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. 113 (Ms. Italian 98).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 341

Contributor:

Capece Latro, Ettore.

OCLC:

155964431