Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del Cassaro Anconitano...[etc.]

Name:

Biagio, Oddo di; Boncompagno, da Signa, approximately 1165-approximately 1240; Dandolo, Andrea, approximately 1307-1354; Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Siege, 1174; Siege, 1383

Date:

1466

Description:

Collection of historical accounts of the sieges of Ancona. The main work (ff. 25r-130r) is Biagio's account of the construction, siege, and destruction of the citadel of Ancona between 1348 and 1383. The main work is preceded by an Italian translation of Boncompagno's Latin work on the siege of 1174, with the translation attributed to Biagio, as well as Italian translations of two shorter passages on Ancona. A note laid in by an unidentified mid-19th century English owner describes one of these as "enlarged extracts from the Doge Andrea Dandolo" (f. 17r); the other is attributed in the text to "Meser Francesco Petrarcha nel suo libro de la imperatori et pontifici" (f. 21r). At the end of the volume is a copy of the Latin text of the letter from the Florentines to the people of Ancona, written by Coluccio Salutati, offering congratulations for the victory of 1383, with its conclusion missing.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

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.; Williams, John Camp, 1859?-1929, former owner.; Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

Relation:

Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/40

Subject:

Sieges -- Early works to 1800; Sieges -- Italy -- Ancona; Sieges

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Chronicles; Codices; Histories; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

134 leaves : paper; 208 x 140 (158 x 80) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm

Geographic Subject:

Ancona (Italy) -- History, Military; Ancona (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1174; Ancona (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1383; Italy -- Ancona

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Oddo di Biagio served as ambassador to Pope Urban V in 1367 (f.51r).; Title for predominant work from caption title (f. 25r) used for whole volume.; Table of contents: 1. ff.1r-16v: De una aspera obsidione facta contra Ancona per mare et per terra per li Venetiani / Boncompagno da Signa.; Table of contents: 2. ff.17r-20v: De una contraversia bellicosa tra li Anconitani et Venetiani / Andrea Dandolo.; Table of contents: 3. f.21r: Ancona da li Saraceni fu oppugnata / Francesco Petrarca (publisher).; Table of contents: 4. ff.22r-127r: Chronica de la edificatione et destructione del Cassaro Anconitano / Oddo di Biagio.; Table of contents: 5. ff.127v-129v: Lettera de li Fiorentini in laude de li Anconitani / Coluccio Salutati.; 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.; Italian and Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 983