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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

Chronicle of the Doges of Venice

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

1556-1658.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian; mottoes or epitaphs in Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, color illustrations, coats of arms

Paper AAT

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

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
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.
Origin: Written in Venice, 1556-1658 (f. 48r, 58r).
Formerly owned by the Earl of Guilford (bookplate, inside upper cover) and Essington manuscript library (no. 139; bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Mediolanum, 1953.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European

chronicles

Manuscripts, Italian

Italy--Venice

History

Politics and government

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915808763503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3m61bq50/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania