[History of Milan]

Published/Created:

Northern Italy (Milan)
ca. 1400

Physical Description:

ff. i + 76 + i : parchment ; 235 x 190 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms642.htm

Notes:

Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Landulphus senior (Landulphus Mediolanensis, 12th century), Historia Mediolanensis. 2) Catalogue of the Archbishops of Milan up to Galdinus (1166-1176), in our manuscript considered as being the final part of art. 1. 3) Arnulf of Milan (Arnulphus Mediolanensis, d. ca. 1077), Liber gestorum recentium, shorter version, i.e. Books I-III only. Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Marginal notes in Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
In the library of the Cathedral of Milan (pressmark E 24.4). Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. ...). Purchased 1913 at a Phillipps sale by Count Alessandro Casati and donated by him to the Societa Storica Lombarda. Christie's sale, London 1981, lot no. ... Purchased from Laurence Witten on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, March 1983.
The annotations are in the hand of Francesco della Croce (d. 1479).
Plain red 1-line initials in the verses at the end of art. 1, Book I (f. 10v) and in art. 2; alternately red and blue 2- or 3-lines initials in the other parts; 5-line littera duplex in the same colours at the beginning of art. 3; 6-line littera duplex with penwork and marginal extensions at the beginning of art. 1, Book I (f. 1v); 9-line foliate initial on square background in yellow, mauve, red, green, blue and with left-margin Gothic illuminated acanthus border on f. 1r.
Binding: Twentieth-century. Plain white parchment over pasteboard. Remnants of title-label at the top of the spine.

Topics:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Topics:

Italy -- History -- 1268-1492
Milan (Italy)

Topics:

Della Croce, Francesco, 1391-1479
of Milan, Arnulf, ca. 1000-ca. 1077

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval
Rubrics

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 642

Orbis Record:

9615754

Orbis Barcode:

39002092697953

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1370390

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

9998923

PID:

digcoll:3687947