World and church history to the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, with diagrams and drawings throughout the text. The first printed edition was published in Cologne in 1474; in editions published in 1479, the election of Sixtus IV in 1471 is mentioned within a longer entry for 1474 that is not present in this manuscript.
Support: paper; Extent: 40 leaves : 417 x 273 mm bound to 429 x 286 mm; Foliation: Paper, 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
Illustrated with numerous drawings and diagrams in ink, with history laid out in linear diagrams, some illustrations colored by hand (for example, f. 3v, 4r, 6v, 9v, 11r, 16v).
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Ms. codex.
Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note in a later hand with the title Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum (inside upper cover).
Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.
Italy
Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), after 1471 (last date in manuscript, f. 40v).
Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, rebacked.
Latin
Sold by Nardecchia (Rome), 1956.
Italy
Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), after 1471 (last date in manuscript, f. 40v).
Latin
Sold by Nardecchia
World and church history to the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, with diagrams and drawings throughout the text. The first printed edition was published in Cologne in 1474; in editions published in 1479, the election of Sixtus IV in 1471 is mentioned within a longer entry for 1474 that is not present in this manuscript.
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Note in a later hand with the title Cronologia ab exordio mundi usque ad Sixtum Quartum (inside upper cover).
Paper is brittle, breaking at the edges of the leaves, some have been previously repaired.
Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
Illustrated with numerous drawings and diagrams in ink, with history laid out in linear diagrams, some illustrations colored by hand (for example, f. 3v, 4r, 6v, 9v, 11r, 16v).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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