University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 289
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1485
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 289
- Title:
- Historia de Papa Allexandro et Phridrico Barba Rossa.
- Place:
- Venice
- Date:
- [between 1525 and 1575]
- Language:
- Italian, with short introduction in Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 10 leaves : paper ; 119 x 145 (166 x 120) mm bound to 196 x 145 mm
- Note:
- Alleged to be a copy of the original found in the Venetian chancellery archives by a secretary and presented to the Doge, Francesco Dona; the copy was made at the request of Pietro Morro.
Cover worn and abraded; cover title partly worn away. Folios 6-9 are uncut at the top. Some stains and smudges. Indications of possible slight worm and mouse damage.
Title from title page (f. 2r).
Cover title: Historia de PP. Alessandro III et Fedrico Barba Rossa I Imperatore de Romani.
Ms. codex.
Subscription after title on f. 2r: Fu trovata da un secretario che haveva carico di regolar le scritture antiche della Duchal cancellaria di Venetia et prensentada [sic] al Serr.mo. Prin.pe Dno. Franc.o. Dona dove e sta tratta la presente copia nella istessa lengua et forma in tuto como gtta. et ame. mandata da M. Pietro Morro familiar del sudetto Principe Dona.
Incipit (f. 3r): Hec sunt iurisditiones, & regalie quibus urbs Veneta claruit donis ab Alexandro qui tertius fuit papa anno mileno centeno septeno in quo regnabat Cesar Augustus scilicit Barba Rossa vocatus ...
Foliation: Paper, 10; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except possibly for the title and title-page subscription.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Venice in the middle of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Acquired, 1959. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915809003503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32m16/manifest
- Holding Institution:
