[Chronicle]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1464

Description:

Chronicle of world history (lacking 2 or more leaves at the beginning) starting with the year 28 A.D. and ending in 1448, with additions in a different hand to 1476. Begins with events from the Gospels and Acts; includes notes on non-Christian authors such as Statius; on Roman emperors, particularly as they play a role in Christian history; on Popes, on early church fathers and saints, on Church councils, including Niceae; on the fall of Rome; monastic orders; on the Saracens taking Jerusalem; astronomical observations; on the Crusades; military events in Italy; famines and plagues; and Italian literary history, including Dante and Petrarch.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold from the collection of Giuseppe Martini to H.P. Kraus, ca. 1948.; Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 182.; Sold by H.P. Kraus (New York), 1962.

Subject:

World history -- Early works to 1800; World history; Church history -- Early works to 1800; Church history

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); chronicles; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Manuscripts, Latin; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

57 leaves : paper; 211 x 141 (110 x 80) mm bound to 218 x 150 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Incipit: Pontius pillatus [sic] procurator Iudee mittitur a Tiberio.; Foliation: i (modern paper) + 57 + i (modern paper); 3-59; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.; Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand.; Binding: Modern boards.; Origin: Written in Florence[?] between 1464 and 1476 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 754