Historical collection, mainly relating to Venice, in Latin and Italian (formerly part of a larger volume); Italy (Venice), 15th century

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Title

Historical collection, mainly relating to Venice, in Latin and Italian (formerly part of a larger volume); Italy (Venice), 15th century

Shelfmark

MS. Holkham misc. 28

Associated place

Crete

Verona

Bari

Lombardy

Place of origin

Italian, Venice

Date

15th century

Language

Italian

Latin

(fol. 1) Eugenius Panormitanus Prophecy

(fol. 4) Rubric: Iste sunt peregrinationis [sic] Ierusalem et tocius terre sancte

(fol. 10v) Epistola Lentuli

(fol. 10v) Epistola Pilati ad Tiberium

(fol. 11) Chronological notes

(fol. 12) Andrea Dandolo Chronicle of Venice

(fol. 53) Andrea Dandolo Compendium historiale

(fol. 54) Bonincontrus de Bovis Hystoria de discordia et persecutione quam habuit ecclesia cum imperatore Federico Barbarossa tempore Alexandri tercii summi pontificis et demum de pace facta Veneciis et habita inter eos

(fol. 56) Life of Alexander III

(fol. 57) Note on 'quid est bonum in mundo'

(fol. 57) 'Prester John' Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum

(fol. 59) Chronicle of Verona, 1260 to 1405

(fol. 62v) Account of events in Lombardy from 572 - c. 575

(fol. 64) Mandate of doge Pietro Ziane to the 132 Venetian knights and 48 foot soldiers sent to establish Venetian rule over Crete, September, 1211

(fol. 65v) Documents relating to the Fourth Crusade

(fol. 65v) Rubric: Sacramentum nuntiorum Balduini comitis Flandrie factum inclito domini Enrico Dandulo

(fol. 65v) Rubric: Sachramentum Theobaldi comitis Trecensis et Palatine factum prefato domini duci

(fol. 66) Rubric: Pactum domini Baldwini chomiti⟨s⟩ Flandrensis et Theobaldi chomitis Trecensis et Lodovici chomitis Blesensis cum prefacto domino Henricho Dandulo

(fol. 68) Rubric: Pactum initum inter suprascrittos dominos in chaptione urbis Constantinopolitanee

(fol. 67) List setting out the division of the territories of the Eastern empire between the Venetians and the Latin princes

(fol. 67v) Letter from doge Pietro Gradenigo explaining his conduct in suppressing the conspiracy of Querino and Tiepolo, 1310

(fol. 69) Agreement between doge Domenico Michiel, and the commune of Bari

(fol. 71v) Note on admission to the Gran Consiglio, and on the closing of the Gran Consiglio in 1297.

(fol. 71v) Rubric: De chronicha magistri Jachobi phisici Olugen. (?) commorantis

(fol. 71v) Rubric: Infrascripti fabrichaverunt aliquas ecllesias in civitate Venet⟨iarum⟩

(fol. 73) Comparative list of Venetian ships sunk and captured by the Genovese, and vice versa, 1206–1423

Form

codex

Support

Paper. Watermarks arrows in saltire, cf. Briquet 6271; ladder, cf. Briquet 5908; anchor in circle with star, cf. Briquet 485.

Physical extent

ii (modern paper) + 81 + ii (modern paper). (Hand 1) (Hand 3) (Hand 5)

Hands

Five main scribes: (1) fol. 1–2, 54–62v; (2) fol. 2v-3v; (3) fol. 4–53v; (4) fol. 63; (5) fol. 64–75

Decoration

Spaces for initials left unfilled by hands (1) and (3)

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of polished brown leather; the spine lettered in gilt 'TRACTATUS | VARII | M. S.', and with the number '497' at the bottom.

Provenance

Written in Venice; still in Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries. On fol. 76–81 is an account in Italian, 17th.-cent., of the conspiracy of Tiepolo and Querini.

Bookplate of 'THOMAS WILLIAM COKE', formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 497.

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