University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 983
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- DS ID:
- DS1748
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 983
- Title:
- Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del Cassaro Anconitano...[etc.] /
- Author:
- Biagio, Oddo di
- Place:
- Ancona?
- Date:
- between 1466 and 1499?
- Language:
- Italian and Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 134 leaves : paper ; 208 x 140 (158 x 80) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Williams, John Camp, 1859?-1929
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944
- Note:
- 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.
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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9936632903503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ht2gc9r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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