Details

Other Title:

Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum.

Subjects:

World history -- Early works to 1800.
World history.
Church history -- Early works to 1800.
Church history.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
diagrams.
drawings (visual works)
Chronologies.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

World and church history to the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, with diagrams and drawings throughout the text. The first printed edition was published in Cologne in 1474; in editions published in 1479, the election of Sixtus IV in 1471 is mentioned within a longer entry for 1474 that is not present in this manuscript.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note in a later hand with the title Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum (inside upper cover).
Foliation: Paper, 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Illustrated with numerous drawings and diagrams in ink, with history laid out in linear diagrams, some illustrations colored by hand (for example, f. 3v, 4r, 6v, 9v, 11r, 16v).
Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, rebacked.
Watermark: Similar to Briquet Griffon 7465 (Florence, 1464).
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), after 1471 (last date in manuscript, f. 40v).
Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Nardecchia (Rome), 1956.

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. 18 (Ms. Latin 85).

Publications about:

Worm, Andrea. "Das Zentrum der Heilsgeschichte als Diagramm: die Gründung der Kirche, das apostolische Glaubenbekenntnis und das himmlische Jerusalem im Fasciculus Temporum." In Diagramm und Text: diagrammatische Strukturen und die Dynamisierung von Wissen und Erfahrung, edited by Eckart Conrad Lutz, Vera Jerjen, and Christine Putzo (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2014), 287–318 at 290n7 and passim., figs. 105, 106, and 109.

Cited as:

Werner Rolevinck, Fasciculus Temporum (Ms. Codex 725). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155985512