Boston Public Library, MS q Med.282

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3529

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.282

Title:

Cronicha de Frate Martino del ordine deli predicatori del stato degli summi pontifici et degli Imp[er]atori.

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

not before 1471

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 138 leaves : paper ; 207 x 149 (130 x 92) mm bound to 22 cm

Former Owner(s):

Saibanti, Giovanni

Giovanni Saibanti WIKIDATA

Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846

Luigi Celotti WIKIDATA

Priestley, Richard, active 1808-1834

Richard Priestley WIKIDATA

Burn, Jacob Henry, -1869

Jacob Henry Burn WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

H.P. Kraus (Firm)

H. P. Kraus (firm) WIKIDATA

Enluminures (Firm)

Enluminures WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms codex.
In Italian.
Title from incipit on fol. 9; catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
Collation: Paper, with watermarks resembling Briquet 12125 and 12127, fol. i (paper, ruled in the same way as the rest of the text block) + i (parchment front flyleaf from original binding?) + 138 ; i8 ii-xi12 xii8 (+5, +10; fol. 133, a parchment leaf (rear flyleaf from original binding?) sewn into the center of the quire and fol. 138, a paper singleton, pasted in at the end) ; contemporary...
Layout: Single column, 24 lines per page, bounding and writing lines in plummet.
Script: Written in two humanist hands in black and dark brown ink. Rubrics in red. Hand 1: fol. 2v-131v; hand 2: 131v-133 and rubrication on 130-132v.
Decoration: Red and blue initials of varying sizes (two to seven lines high). Coat of arms in blue and gold in the lower margin of fol. 9r (azure, the letter "F" on a bend or)
Binding: Bound in ca. 19th-century reddish calfskin. The two parchment leaves -- the first serving as the second flyleaf at front, the second inserted in the middle of the final quire -- both appear to be flyleaves from the original binding, as evidenced by reddish staining that appears to have transferred from old leather turn-ins.
Origin: Based on the latest entry, which describes the election of Pope Sixtus IV, this copy was likely produced in approximately 1472, and certainly no earlier than 1471. Contents, as well as script, dialect, and watermark evidence suggest that the manuscript was produced in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy. Possibly written and/or copied by Dom Lodovigo da Cha da Fan, prior of San...
Provenance: Early/contemporary annotations in an unidentified hand. Apparently owned by Giovanni Saibanti of Verona (fl. 1732), whose library was acquired by Luigi Celotti (approximately 1768-1846); Celotti's sale at Sotheby's, 26 February, 1821, lot 142 (Saibanti and Canonici manuscripts ...) Sold by London bookseller Richard Priestley in 1823 (Catalogue of a miscellaneous collection of books...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago, in September, 2020.
Call number: MS q Med.282.
Bibliography: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) MS_3336

Keyword:

humanistic scripts

Marginalia

Inscriptions

Annals and chronicles

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Italian

World history

Papacy

History, Ancient

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444896

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sb399w89c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library