Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Chronicles.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, Latin.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Chronicle of world history (lacking 2 or more leaves at the beginning) starting with the year 28 A.D. and ending in 1448, with additions in a different hand to 1476. Begins with events from the Gospels and Acts; includes notes on non-Christian authors such as Statius; on Roman emperors, particularly as they play a role in Christian history; on Popes, on early church fathers and saints, on Church councils, including Niceae; on the fall of Rome; monastic orders; on the Saracens taking Jerusalem; astronomical observations; on the Crusades; military events in Italy; famines and plagues; and Italian literary history, including Dante and Petrarch.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Pontius pillatus [sic] procurator Iudee mittitur a Tiberio.
Foliation: i (modern paper) + 57 + i (modern paper); 3-59; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Florence[?] between 1464 and 1476 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H.P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 182.
Sold by H.P. Kraus (New York), 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. 39 (Ms. Latin 169).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 754.

OCLC:

155985563