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

Item Information

Title:
Cronicha de Frate Martino del ordine deli predicatori del stato degli summi pontifici et degli Imp[er]atori
Title (alt.):
Cronicha de Frate Martino del ordine deli predicatori del stato degli summi pontifici et degli Imperatori
Cronica degli pontifici e degli imperatori
Title (uniform):
Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum. Italian
Description:
An anonymous vernacular Italian translation and expansion of Martin of Opava's Chronicle of popes and emperors, recording events through the papal election of Sixtus IV in 1471, and with a particular focus on events in northeastern Italy. These events include Frederick II's sack of Vicenza in 1236, the Venetian conquests of Padua (1405) and Brescia (1439), as well as the Battle of Negroponte (1470). In this version, the papal and imperial histories are maintained in separate sequences.
Contributor:
Martinus, Polonus, -1279
Former owner:
Saibanti, Giovanni
Former owner:
Celotti, Luigi, approximately 1768-approximately 1846
Former owner:
Priestley, Richard, active 1808-1834
Former owner:
Burn, Jacob Henry, -1869
Former owner:
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Former owner:
H.P. Kraus (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Finarte Semenzato (Firm)
Former owner:
Enluminures (Firm)
Date:
1472
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Inscriptions (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Annals and chronicles
humanistic scripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Subjects:
World history--Early works to 1800
History, Ancient--Early works to 1800
Papacy--History--Early works to 1800
Places:
Italy > Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Italy--History--1268-1492
Extent:
138 leaves : paper ; 207 x 149 (130 x 92) mm bound to 22 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sb399w89c
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Italian
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-2: blank, but ruled, with later inscriptions.
2. fol. 2v-6: (tables) "tauola de questa opera deli summi pontifici & de li Imperadori per che nel numerar ordinatamente lo fo errato non uogliendo qui mo se corregie lo error."
3. fol. 6v-8v: blank, but ruled.
4. fol. 9-75v: incipit: "Commincia la Chronicha de Frate Martino del ordine deli predicadori del stato degli summi pontifici et degli Imp[er]atori. Et prima del modo de la creation de Roma secondo la oppinion de diuersi auctori et scriptori de le cosse antique." Text begins: "Comedice Orosio lo qual scriue al glorioso Augustino Da la creation del mundo perfina a la hedification de Roma el fo anni iiij[m]. cccc. Lxxxiiij." Ends on 75v: "Sixto de nation genouese da Sauona stete papa anni ["12" added in a different hand] mesi ["0" added in a different hand] giorni ["0" added in a different hand]. Costui fo general deli frati menori lo dito fo fato cardenal per papa paulo suo antecessor corendo li anni del signor mi. cccco. Lxviij."
5. fol. 76-80v: blank, but ruled.
6. fol. 81-132v: incipit: "Hauendo dicto in breuita de lo stato deli su[m]mi pontifici hora diro de lo stato deli Imperadori li quali sono choessi in uno medesimo tempo & per che lo stato temporal a fato la cita de roma diro sego[n]do li auctori del suo cho[m]menzamento." text begins: "El tempo ch[e] Roma comenzo fo da poi la creatio[n] del mondo a[n]ni iiij[m]. cccc°. lxxxiiiij e da poi la destruction de Troia anni cccc°. liiij ..." Ends on 132v: "anchora lo dito prese la isola de negroponte la qual era de la signoria de uenesia 1440"
7. fol. 133: "Cronicha vulgar schrita per mi dom Lodouigo da cha da fan prior de San Vio de Vicentia del 1472."
8. fol. 133v: blank.
9. fol. 134-138v: blank, but ruled.
Notes:
Ms codex.
Title from incipit on fol. 9; catalog record based in part on dealer's description.
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 Vito in Vicenza, who is listed as the creator, in the first person, in an inscription on the inserted parchment leaf (fol. 133).
Notes (ownership):
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 in every department of literature, and in various languages, no. 4630). Later to Jacob Henry Burn, his name inscribed on the recto of the parchment flyleaf. Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps, his stencilled lion rampant crest on parchment flyleaf and number (MS 3087) on fol. 1 and spine label. Also on fol. 1, and apparently in Phillipps' hand: "This contains the account of Popess Joan." Phillipps' sale (Sotheby's, 6 June, 1910, lot 217). Offered by H.P. Kraus in 1956(?) (list 189, no. 122). Inscribed on recto of front flyleaf in a modern hand: "? from Reading Abbey Library 73.7" Offered at auction by Finarte Semenzato (5 May 2003, lot 52)
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Les Enluminures, Chicago, in September, 2020.
Purchase; Les Enluminures, Paris; 2020; 2020.44.2.
Notes (date):
[not before 1471]
Notes (object):
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 quire signatures for viii-xi in lower, outer margins; vertical catchwords for ii-vi and viii-xii. Ink pagination (1-37) in upper, outer margins of fol. 9-27; otherwise modern pencil foliation (1-138).
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.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) MS_3336
Notes (language):
In Italian.
Identifier:
06_01_018275
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.282
Barcode:
39999092730314