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Record Id:
032-002029517
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029517
MDARK:
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8636
Title:

ANTONIO CALERGI: Commentarii delle Cose di Candia; late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian. Chronicle of the island of Crete from the origins to the year 1303 written around mid 16th cent. by Antonio Calergi (1521-1555), a Venetian nobleman in Crete. Inc. (f. 1) 'La famosa Isola di Creti, la quale hoggidi è nominata Candia', expl. (f. 464) 'scritti tra il numero de i Nobeli Veneziani, come al suo luogo dichiarirassi', followed by a later note 'Fine del libro decimo quarto. ariva sino all'anno 1303'. The text is divided into fourteen books; possibly two more books are missing, as inferred in a note by Apostolo Zeno in another copy of the text, now Venice, Bibl. Marciana, it. MS. VI, 155 (5801), p. 899. Each book is preceded by a title similar to the title (f. 1) of the first book 'Libro primo de i Commentari delle cose di Candia fatte dentro, et fuori, di Antonio Calergi Gentilhuomo Vinitiano'. Occasional later marginal additions. The MS. is described by Foligno, anno 6, t. xi (1906), pt. i, no. xliv, p. 173. It is also mentioned by Hasluck, p. 203, n. 4. Old shelfmark in pencil 'B.1.' (f. ii verso, top centre). For Antonio Calergi see Panagiotakès, 'Ereynai en Venetia', p. 47 (reprinted ed. p. 53), where the MS. is assumed to come from the Calergi collection, p. 49 (reprinted ed. p. 55). Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/17/C' (front pastedown). '360' in pencil in top left corner of f. i verso. Purchased, together with Add. 8595, 8637, 8638, 8641, and 8642, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 360 (part).

Paper; ff. 470+iii, plus ten unfoliated blanks (one respectively after ff. 257, 319 and eight after f. 393). Composite volume: (a) books 1-7 (ff. 1-257); - (b) books 8-9 (ff. 258-319, plus blank); - (c) books 10-11 (ff. 320-385); - (d) book 12 (ff. 386-393, plus blanks); - (e) books 13-14 (ff. 394-464). Modern foliation in pencil 1-464 (followed here), omitting one leaf after ff. 17, 18, 50, 144, repeating nos. 240, 243, 267, and omitting no. 433. Old foliations in ink 1-34 (ff. 394-427) and 1-35 (ff. 428-464). Interrupted gathering signature "A.i-A.iiii' (ff. 1-4). Circa 325 x 220mm. (sections (d) and (e) of slightly smaller size). Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. Three Italian hands. Late 16th-early 17th cent. binding of vellum with decorated pastedowns and contiguous endleaves.

Scope & Content:

Bindings: Vellum with decorated pastedowns and flyleaves: late 16th-early 17th cent.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/C): bef. 1828.

Chronicles: Antonio Calergi, of Crete; chronicler: Greece: Island of Crete: Chronicle of Candia to 1303 by Antonio Calergi: late 16th-early 17 cent.: Ital.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Hierarchy:
032-002029517
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1560
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 360, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Calergi, Antonio, of Crete, chronicler
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Places:
Crete, Greece
Greece