Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Bishops -- Biography.
Catholic Church.
Bishops.
Aquileia (Italy) -- History -- To 1500.

Form/Genre:

Biographies.
Biographies (literary works)
Codices.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, Latin.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Brief lives of the bishops and patriarchs of Aquileia (referred to as Aquilegia in the text) from the first century A.D. to the year 1411.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by catalogers based on the version published in Muratori's Rerum Italicorum Scriptores, 1730.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 42 + iii (modern paper); [iii], 16-24, [ii], 25-52; contemporary Roman foliation, upper center recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script.
Decoration: Alternating red and blue 2-line initials throughout.
Binding: Half-leather (Zacour-Hirsch) with modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly in Venice (Zacour-Hirsch), in the second half of the 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover); A. N. L. Munby (bookplate, inside upper cover); C. W. Previté-Orton (signature, inside upper cover).
Formerly in the collection of Jacopo Soranzo (Mitchell).
Sold from the collection of Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1835 (Mitchell) to Sneyd.
Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 37.
Sold by Alan G. Thomas (Bournemouth), 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. 33 (Ms. Latin 143).
Printed version of a manuscript of a similar text in Muratori, Rerum Italicorum Scriptores (Milan, 1730), vol. 16
See Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ...," The Bodleian Library Record, Vol. VIII, no. 3 (February 1969), p. 125-135

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 934

Contributor:

Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761, former owner.
Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner.
Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.
Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974, former owner.

OCLC:

155925490