Details

Other Title:

De la generatione delli Ongari.

Subjects:

History.
Hungary -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Hungary.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Histories.
Engravings (prints)
Portraits.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

History of Hungary from early times until 1539 by an unidentified Italian historian.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from 19th-century title page (f. ii recto), which has Storia d'Ungheria, dalle origine al 1339 [corrected to 1539]. Added title is from incipit: De la generatione delli Ongari, sono piu oppinioni...
Foliation: i (19th-century paper) + 8 + 46 + iii (19th-century paper); 1⁶ 2⁴⁶; [i-viii, 1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; f. 1-46 has contemporary pagination in ink, 3-92, upper center.
Layout: Written in 27-32 long lines.
Script: Written in italic script, in one hand.
Decoration: Nine engraved portraits of Hungarian kings cut out from a 17th-century Latin history of Hungary and pasted on added leaves by Damiano Muoni (f. iii recto - v recto).
Binding: 19th-century quarter calf, spine missing.
Origin: Written in Italy, after 1539.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Damiano Muoni, Milan (stamps throughout manuscript, for example, f. [ii] recto).
Sold in the collection of Giuseppe Martini at auction at Hoepli, 21 May 1935, lot 110.
Appears in H. P. Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 194.
Purchased, 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. 163 (Ms. Lea 74 Italian).
Reference to the Storia d'Ungaria in Damiano Muoni's Archivi di stato in Milano, con un cenno sulle particolari collezioni dell' autore, Milan, 1874, p. 84 (f. i recto).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 543

Contributor:

Muoni, Damiano, 1820-1894, former owner.
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155965881