Details

Standardized Title:

Historia destructionis Troiae

Subjects:

Trojan War -- Early works to 1800.
Illegitimacy -- Italy.
Notaries -- Italy.
Notaries.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern).
Illegitimacy.
Italy.
Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800.
Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Decrees.
Romances (document genre)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Legends.

Summary:

Colonna's Historia Troiana, plus 2 unrelated decrees.

Contents:

1. f.1r-141r: Historia Troiana.
2. f.141v: Decree legitimizing three illegitimate individuals.
3. f.142r: Decree creating a notary public and justice in ordinary.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Author from explicit (f. 140r).
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 142 + ii (modern paper); [1-142]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on the verso of every twelfth leaf, except for 60v.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines (f. 1r-141r).
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script, with the main text written by a single hand, and the 2 decrees written by a second hand. Passages left blank in the main text were completed later by a 15th-century hand.
Decoration: Red used for initials (sometimes additionally decorated with fine red or black flourishes), paragraph marks, and capital strokes in the main text.
Binding: Modern half-morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Northern Italy around 1370 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit (1st work): Etsi cotidie vetera recentibus obruantur...
Explicit (1st work): Ego Guido de Columpna messana pridem ... Factum est autem presens opus domini incarnatione. Mille CCLXXXVIII eiusdem, prime indictionis. Amen. Deo Gratias. Explicit.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by William Harrison Woodward (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Goldschmidt, 1953.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 11 (Ms. Latin 47).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 841

Contributor:

Woodward, William Harrison, 1856-1941, former owner.

OCLC:

188937787