Cronaca, e leggende inedite Faentine

Date:

1778

Description:

History of Faenza from 1218-17-- , based on earlier chronicles, includes church history, descriptions of Rogation Day processions, lists of lawyers and doctors, legends of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, lives and miracles of local saints. Numerous corrections, emendations throughout in a second hand, may have been a printer's copy, but does not appear to have been published.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Purchased, 1962.

Subject:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Apparitions and miracles; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Festivals -- Italy -- Faenza; Saints -- Legends; Saints; Festivals

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Legends; Codices; Chronicles; Hagiographies (works); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

154 leaves : paper; 297 x 204 (248 x 161) mm bound to 307 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Faenza; Faenza (Italy) -- History

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. ii recto).; Incipit: Sito della città (f. 1r).; Pagination: Paper, 154; [v], 1-150, [i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with numerous corrections and notes in a second hand.; Binding: 19th-century half leather.; Origin: Written in Italy, after 1778.; Italian, with copies of some documents in Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 420