Details

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Festivals -- Italy -- Faenza.
Saints -- Legends.
Saints.
Festivals.
Italy -- Faenza.
Faenza (Italy) -- History.

Form/Genre:

Legends.
Codices.
Chronicles.
Hagiographies (works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with copies of some documents in Latin.

Summary:

History of Faenza from 1218-17-- , based on earlier chronicles, includes church history, descriptions of Rogation Day processions, lists of lawyers and doctors, legends of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, lives and miracles of local saints. Numerous corrections, emendations throughout in a second hand, may have been a printer's copy, but does not appear to have been published.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. ii recto).
Incipit: Sito della città (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, 154; [v], 1-150, [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with numerous corrections and notes in a second hand.
Binding: 19th-century half leather.
Origin: Written in Italy, after 1778.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1962.

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. 132 (Ms. Italian 191).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 420

OCLC:

155968867