Accession number
PML 16366
Creator
Bossius, Donatus, 1436-approximately 1500.
Object title
Chronica Bossiana. : Donati Bossii, causidici & ciuis Mediolane[n]sis: gesto[rum] dictorum[que] memorabilium: & tempo[rum]: ac co[n]ditionu[m]: & mutationum humanarum: ab orbis initio: us[que] ad eius tempora: liber ad illustrimu[m] principem Ioannem Galeazium: Mediolanensem ducem sextum.
Published
Mediolani : Antonium Zarotum parmensem. Ad impensas probi uiri Donati Bossii ciuis Mediolanensis, Anno salutis christiane .Mcccc.Lxxxxii. calendis Martiis [1 March 1492].
Description
[168] leaves : 1 genealogical table ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon (leaf y4r, reads in full): Impressum fuit in inclyta ciuitate Mediolani [per] solertissimum artis impressorie magistrum Antonium Zarotum parmensem. Ad impensas probi uiri Donati Bossii ciuis Mediolanensis: & causidici accuratissimi: auctorisque huius pulcherrime operis. Anno salutis christiane .Mcccc.Lxxxxii. calendis Martiis.
Printed in Zarotus's types 5:111R and 7:76/77G (genealogical table).
Collation: a-r⁸ s¹⁰ t⁶ u⁸ x-y⁴: 168 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
The genealogical table, printed in red on leaf a1v, is captioned: "Genealogia Vicecomitum Principum Mediolani descendentium de Inuorio Ducatus Mediolani".
List of bishops of Milan: "Omnes Episcopi & Archiepiscopi Mediolani" (leaves y1r-y4r).
44 lines and printed marginalia, 245 x 139 (169) mm. Capital spaces with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 22.7 cm., trimmed.
Imprint from colophon (leaf y4r, reads in full): Impressum fuit in inclyta ciuitate Mediolani [per] solertissimum artis impressorie magistrum Antonium Zarotum parmensem. Ad impensas probi uiri Donati Bossii ciuis Mediolanensis: & causidici accuratissimi: auctorisque huius pulcherrime operis. Anno salutis christiane .Mcccc.Lxxxxii. calendis Martiis.
Printed in Zarotus's types 5:111R and 7:76/77G (genealogical table).
Collation: a-r⁸ s¹⁰ t⁶ u⁸ x-y⁴: 168 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
The genealogical table, printed in red on leaf a1v, is captioned: "Genealogia Vicecomitum Principum Mediolani descendentium de Inuorio Ducatus Mediolani".
List of bishops of Milan: "Omnes Episcopi & Archiepiscopi Mediolani" (leaves y1r-y4r).
44 lines and printed marginalia, 245 x 139 (169) mm. Capital spaces with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 22.7 cm., trimmed.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (33 x 23.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Stikeman. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Minimal notations in text. Visconti genealogy annotated with order of succession. List of Roman emperors, 16th century (leaf y4v). Biographical note on Bossius, 17th century (leaf a2r). Manuscript title on bottom edge.
Provenance
Michele Cavaleri (1813-1890), Museo Cavaleri stamp (leaf a2r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1909.
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