University of Kansas, MS B90

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1186

Shelfmark:

MS B90

Title:

Chronicle of popes and emperors

Place:

Central Europe

Central Europe TGN

Date:

[between 1276 and 1300]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 52 leaves : parchment ; 168 x 119 (120 x 83) mm bound to 170 x 120 mm

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript codex
Collation: 52 (parchment) + i (parchment, pastedown): 1¹² + 2¹² (2 and 11 are singletons) + 3-4¹² + 5⁴.
Foliation: Unfoliated. Foliation supplied by cataloger.
Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower right corner on folios 12v, 24v, 36v, 48v.
Layout: Written in 24 long lines, below top line. Ruled in lead, now mostly erased.
Script: Written by a single hand in Gothica textualis.
Decoration: Initials in plain red throughout (one initial I skipped on folio 9v, one initial C corrected to K on folio 36v); guide letters visible in outer margins on most folios.
Binding: Romanesque, possibly original. Bound in full dark brown leather over wooden boards, with three alum-tawed slit straps laced through channels. Blind-tooling on front and back cover. Remnants of three paper labels adhered to the head, middle and tail of spine, perhaps as an earlier preservation measure. Most of the leather is destroyed, the spine is exposed and both boards are detached...
Origin: Probably written in Central Europe or Italy in the last quarter of the thirteenth century.
Shelfmark: Lawrence, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, MS B90
In good condition except for some minor water damage on lower fore-edge. Signs of early repairs of parchment defects on several folios. Notes in black ink in a modern hand in upper margin of folio 1r ("M[anu]s[criptu]s inceptum anno Christi 1217 vel ad summum 1220") and in upper margin of back pastedown ("Hoc m[anu]s[criptu]s absolutum est circa annum d[omi]ni 1272 vel 1273"). A short note by...
The manuscript contains an expanded version of Gilbert of Rome's Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum Romanorum with interpolations from other texts, possibly from Martin of Opava's Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum or one or more of its sources.
History of the manuscript is unknown. Title, possibly original, on front cover [see binding]. Inscribed "XI.4" in black ink on inside of front board. Scraped off (ownership?) inscription and an unidentified signature in lower margin on folio 1r. Inscribed "C.8" (?) in red crayon on back pastedown.

Keyword:

Annals and chronicles

Wooden boards

Contemporary bindings

Leather bindings

Blind tooled bindings

Chained bindings

Jesus Christ

History, Ancient

Papacy

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Emperors

World history

Institutional Record:

https://kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1n9tuvc/KU_VOYAGER2961305

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MSB90_30/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

University of Kansas