University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 261
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1473
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 261
- Title:
- Cronica di tutti li Dogi di Venetia sino á quello che hora vive, con le armi loro : aggiontovi l'indice, & origine della casate, con quelle che sono estinte.
- Place:
- Venice
- Date:
- 1556-1658.
- Language:
- Italian; mottoes or epitaphs in Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 67 leaves : paper, color illustrations, coats of arms ; 203 x 150 (152 x 100) mm bound to 211 x 156 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827
- Note:
- Binding: Quarter vellum and boards, later in date than the manuscript. On many leaves the oxidation of the ink and corrosiveness of the paint have begun to eat through the paper; on some folios the damage is rather advanced.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r). Spine title: Cronica de Venetia.
Foliation: Paper, i (later paper) + 67 + i (later paper); [iv], 1-57, [58-63]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 59-63 are blank.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by several different hands.
Decoration: Colored coats of arms, on the verso of most numbered folios, opposite the text description of the doge to whom the coat of arms belongs. Title page has a colorful, elaborately decorated border. Red used for the mottoes or epitaphs that accompany the accounts of many of the doges.
Origin: Written in Venice, 1556-1658 (f. 48r, 58r).
Sold by Mediolanum, 1953.
Formerly owned by the Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover) and Essington manuscript library (no. 139; bookplate, inside upper cover). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808763503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3m61bq50/manifest
- Holding Institution:
