Add MS 8601

Rolandino of Padua: Chronicle of Ezzelino da Romano and the Marquisate of Treviso from 1194 to 1260; 1619. Latin. The chronicle covers the history of the Marquisate and the tyranny of Ezzelino da Romano, with particular focus on Padua, and was completed by Rolandino of Padua in 1262; inc. (f. 14v) 'Cronica facta Marchie', expl. (f. 293) 'intrante mense Aprilis'. Preceded by (f. 2) the prologue, inc. 'Cronica in factis et circa facta Marchie Tarvisine / Antiquorum sollempnis auctoritas', and the table of contents (f. 4), but lacks the preface. The MS is described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, xi (1906), pt. ii, no. lxvii, p. 168, and listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 417, p. 31 and Iter Italicum, IV (1989), p. 68b. The chronicle was first published by F. Osio in Venice in 1636; the edition by L. A. Muratori (ed.), Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, viii, 1723, coll. 157-360, has been revised by A. Bonardi in Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, n.s., t. viii, pt. i, 1905, pp. 7-174. Frontispiece (f. 1) with illuminated escutcheon of the Ezzelini family, here called 'Acciolini' (see N. de Claricini Dornpacher, Lo stemma dei da Onara o da Romano, Padua, 1906). Copied in Padua in 1619 by the notary Gaspare di Bernardino Maggione from a 14th-century MS on vellum in the library of Giacomo Zabarella (see I. P. Tomasini, Bibliothecae Patavinae manuscriptae publicae et privatae, Utini, 1639, p. 93), now lost (colophon, f. 293; A. Bonardi, op.cit., p. xii and n. 2). Marginal notabilia added by a later hand. 'M2[4]3' in ink in upper left corner of f. ii verso, cancelled. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark L/17/D (front pastedown). '321' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8583, 8598, 8599 and 8600, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 321 (part).

Paper; ff. iii+293. 193 x circa 140mm. Quarter binding of calf leather (rebacked) with marbled paper covers.