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Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del Cassaro Anconitano...[etc.] / co[m]pos[i]ta p[er] lo eximio doctor de legge Meser Oddo de Biasio, citadino de Ancona.

Author/Creator:
Biagio, Oddo di.
Publication:
[Ancona?], [between 1466 and 1499?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
134 leaves : paper ; 208 x 140 (158 x 80) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm
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Subjects:
Sieges -- Early works to 1800.
Sieges -- Italy -- Ancona.
Sieges.
Ancona (Italy) -- History, Military.
Ancona (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1174.
Ancona (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1383.
Italy -- Ancona.
Form/Genre:
Chronicles.
Codices.
Histories.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian and Latin.
Biography/History:
Oddo di Biagio served as ambassador to Pope Urban V in 1367 (f.51r).
Summary:
Collection of historical accounts of the sieges of Ancona. The main work (ff. 25r-130r) is Biagio's account of the construction, siege, and destruction of the citadel of Ancona between 1348 and 1383. The main work is preceded by an Italian translation of Boncompagno's Latin work on the siege of 1174, with the translation attributed to Biagio, as well as Italian translations of two shorter passages on Ancona. A note laid in by an unidentified mid-19th century English owner describes one of these as "enlarged extracts from the Doge Andrea Dandolo" (f. 17r); the other is attributed in the text to "Meser Francesco Petrarcha nel suo libro de la imperatori et pontifici" (f. 21r). At the end of the volume is a copy of the Latin text of the letter from the Florentines to the people of Ancona, written by Coluccio Salutati, offering congratulations for the victory of 1383, with its conclusion missing.
Contents:
1. ff.1r-16v: De una aspera obsidione facta contra Ancona per mare et per terra per li Venetiani / Boncompagno da Signa.
2. ff.17r-20v: De una contraversia bellicosa tra li Anconitani et Venetiani / Andrea Dandolo.
3. f.21r: Ancona da li Saraceni fu oppugnata / Francesco Petrarca (publisher).
4. ff.22r-127r: Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del Cassaro Anconitano / Oddo di Biagio.
5. ff.127v-129v: Lettera de li Fiorentini in laude de li Anconitani / Coluccio Salutati.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title for predominant work from caption title (f. 25r) used for whole volume.
Collation: Paper, 134, fol. [ii] + 21 + [iii, blank] + 22-129; 11 quires, numbered 4 through 14, of 12 pages each, with a catchword on the lower inner corner of the last page of each quire (including the present last leaf of the codex). Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 23 or 24 long lines.
Script: Written in a near-humanistic hand (Kraus).
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in Ancona, in the late 15th century.
Notes on this codex by an unidentified mid-19th century English owner, Giuseppe Martini, and the firm of H. P. Kraus are on file at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly part of the Rosenheim Collection, No. B26 (round paper label, inside front cover).
Formerly owned by John Camp Williams (bookplate, inside front cover, red diamond with a gilt peacock and motto, Cognosce occasionem).
Sold at auction at the American Art Association, 6-8 Nov. 1929, no. 112; purchased by Lathrop C. Harper and transferred to Giuseppe Martini.
Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H. P. Kraus, ca. 1948.
Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1963.
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. 221 (Ms. Lea 373).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 983
Contributor:
Boncompagno, da Signa, approximately 1165-approximately 1240.
Dandolo, Andrea, approximately 1307-1354.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406.
Williams, John Camp, 1859?-1929, former owner.
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.
OCLC:
155928994