[Historia Troiana]

Name:

Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1370

Description:

Colonna's Historia Troiana, plus 2 unrelated decrees.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by William Harrison Woodward (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Sold by Goldschmidt, 1953.; Woodward, William Harrison, 1856-1941, former owner.

Subject:

Trojan War -- Early works to 1800; Illegitimacy -- Italy; Notaries -- Italy; Notaries; Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern); Illegitimacy; Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Decrees; Romances (document genre); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Legends; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

142 leaves : paper; 276 x 213 (218 x 122) mm bound to 285 x 216 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy; Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends -- Early works to 1800

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-141r: Historia Troiana. -- 2. f.141v: Decree legitimizing three illegitimate individuals. -- 3. f.142r: Decree creating a notary public and justice in ordinary.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Author from explicit (f. 140r).; Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 142 + ii (modern paper); [1-142]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on the verso of every twelfth leaf, except for 60v.; Layout: Written in 31 long lines (f. 1r-141r).; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script, with the main text written by a single hand, and the 2 decrees written by a second hand. Passages left blank in the main text were completed later by a 15th-century hand.; Decoration: Red used for initials (sometimes additionally decorated with fine red or black flourishes), paragraph marks, and capital strokes in the main text.; Binding: Modern half-morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in Northern Italy around 1370 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Incipit (1st work): Etsi cotidie vetera recentibus obruantur...; Explicit (1st work): Ego Guido de Columpna messana pridem ... Factum est autem presens opus domini incarnatione. Mille CCLXXXVIII eiusdem, prime indictionis. Amen. Deo Gratias. Explicit.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 841