Kings MS 148

'CRONICA Venetiarum per annos domini diuisa sub breui titulo compilata Petro Iustiniano Iustiniani [over an erasure] filio authore': a chronicle of Venetian history from the fall of Troy, anno mundi 4206, to A. D. 1358; with an appendix of documents, lists of officials, &c., 883-1573. Latin, except a few documents in Italian. This chronicle bears no resemblance to the wellknown Rerum Venetrum Historia (Venice, 1560, &C.) of Pietro Giustiniani, son of Alvise, and is evidently the work of an earlier writer, perhaps the' Piero Giustiniano di Giustiniano di Piero', fl. 1410, WhO is mentioned by M. Foscarini, Della Letteratura Veneziana, 1752, p. 143 (for the passage referred to in the foot-note cf 83 of this MS.). Another chronicler of the same name is mentioned by Foscarini, p. 115 (see too E. A. Cigogna, Delle Inscrizioni Veneziane, iv, 1834, pp. 189, 689; but he seems too early, his father is named Tommasino, and the passage cited does not occur in the MS. (cf. f. 72 b). On the leaf preceding the chronicle (f. 15) are inscribed, in the same hand and presumably copied from the archetype (cf. inscription with date 1354, on f. 197 b, noted below), (i) 'Questa Cronica e di io Andrea Contarini fo de M. Marco, la qual compri da M^o. Fran^o. scrittor, sta in la cale delle stagnade à S. Saluador, che uende libri, costame L i à oro, fo adi 18 Auasto 1481' ;-

(ii) entries in Latin, purporting apparently to be by the chronicler, of the births of his son Justinianus and daughters Cecilia, Agnes, Justiniana, and Catarina, 1348-1357, and the death of his father Justinianus Justinianus (Captain-General against the Turks 1348, Count and Captain of Zara 1351, Podestà of Chioggia 1354) in 1357. This Giustiniano appears, as son of Bernardo, in tav. iv of the pedigree of Giustiniani of Venice in Litta, Famiglie Celebri Italiane, fasc. 48, disp. 78 (1840); but no mention is made there of his descendants. The chronicle seems to be identical with that contained (anonymously) in the Paris MS. Bibl. Nat, lat. 5877 (see P. Daru, Hist. de Venise, vii, 1853, p. 161; A. Prost, in Revue des Questions Historiques, xxxi, 1882, P. 545). Down to the death of Doge Bartolommeo Gradenigo in 1342 it agrees with a chronicle ending at that point and attributed to Andrea Dandolo, Doge 1343-1354, which is extant in MSS. at Venice (see J. Valentinelli, Bibliotheca MS. ad S. Marci Venetiarum, vi, 1873, p. 168) and Munich, and is classified by H. Simonsfeld, Andreas Dandolo und seine Geschichtswerke, 1876, pp. 39, 43-53, as Recension B of the so-called 'kleine Chronik Andreas Dandolos'. And the special attention given to the Dandolo family in the appended lists of officials (see below, artt. 13,14) is probably significant in this connexion. There is no break here at 1342 beyond the usual fresh paragraph, and the text goes on (f 97 b): 'Andreas Dandulo cum sancti Marci foret eclesiæ procurator'. Beg. 'Predecessorum nostrorum auctoritate testante equidem ante constitutionem presentis urbis Venetiarum altera Venetia fuit '. Ends (f. 109 b) 'Huius etiam tempore, anno Domini 1358, ad dicta loca Triuisanæ recuperata, infrascripti nobiles fuerunt per electionem Maioris Consilii destinati ... in Valle Marini, Dominus Paulus Georgio'. f. 16. The appended documents are as follows:-

1. ' Priuilegium factum per Carolum Romanorum Imperatorem Domino Iohanni Baduario (sic, cf. f. 28), inclito Duci Veneticorum'; vi Id. Maii, 883. Printed, as part of lib. viii, cap. 6 of the Chronicon of Andrea Dandolo, in Muratori, Rer. Ital. Scr., xii, col. 189. f. 110.

2. 'Concessio facta per Dominum Tribunum Memo illustrem Ducem Venetiarum . . . Iohanni Mauroceno de ecclesia sancti Georgii '; 982. Quoted ib. col. 219 (Dandolo, lib. viii, cap. 17). f. 111.

3. ' Priuilegium factum per Dominum Vitalem Faledro ... Venetiarum, Dalmatiæ, atque Croatræ Ducem ... hominibus habitantibus in castro Laureti' [Loreo] ; Oct. 1094. Printed ib. col. 251, dated Dec. 1094. f. 113.

4. ' Priuilegium habitum ab Henrico Quarto [Quinto] Romanorum Imperatore, per Dominos Vitalem Faledro, Stephanum Mauroceno, et Vrsium Iustiniano . . . ambassatores . . . Domini Ordelafi Faledro, Ducis Venetiarum'; Verona, xi Kal. Iun. iiii. Printed by J. C. Lünig, Cod. Ital. Diplom ii, 1726, col. 1951. f. 115.

5. Note of similar privileges obtained by successive Doges, 1136- 1220, 'quæ omnia priuilegia habuerunt Veneti cum conditione prædicta denariorum, piperis, et pallii '. f. 117 b.

6. ' Priuilegium pacti Patriarchæ Hier[o]solimitani ' fratri illustrissimo et uictoriosissimo Dom. Dominico Michacli Venetiarum Duci', 1123, with confirmation, May, 1125. f. 118.

7. ' Ordinamentum de captione Constantinopolis factum per . . . Henricum Dandulo Ducem Venetiarum et Barones Franciæ'; Jan. 1204. Printed by Lünig, ii. 1957, and Muratori, xii- 326, with date Mar. 1204. Followed (f. i 2i b) by a list of the territories of the Eastern Ernpire transferred to Venice (Muratori, xii. 328). f 120.

8. 'Priullegium pacis actum inter Dorninum Regem Hungariæ et Dom. Iacobum Theupulo, magnificum Ducem Venetiarum, et de quietatione Iadræ [Zara]'; ii Kal. Iul. 1244. f. 122- 9. 'Translatio episcopatus Methamaucensis [Malarmocco] in Clugienses [Chioggia] sub Duce Ordelafo Faledro'; Apr. IIII. Printed by G. Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia, x, 1854, p. 337; cf. Muratori, xii. 259, where the date is given as Oct. 1110. f. 122 b.

10. 'Aquietatio siue remissio facta hominibus ciuitatis nouæ [Cittanuova] per Dominum Otthonem Vrsiolo Ducem'; Mar. 1015. ff. 124.

11. 'Proles nobilium Venetorum, de qua parte venerunt, et vnde originem habuerunt, et eorum staturam et conditionem '; in rough alphabetical order. f. 126.

12. Names of noble families of the various islands, &c., forming the Venetian republic. f. 139 b.

13. ' Procuratores eclesiæ sancti Marci', A.D. 920-1510. Preceded (f. 141 b) by ' Procuratores sancti Marci familie Dandule', 1193-1382. ff. 142-145, 188- 192, b.

14. Names of governors of Venetian dependencies, &c., down to 1358 (with separate lists, in most cases, of those belonging the, Dandolo family), as follows:-(a) 'Comites Arbenses' [Arbe], f. 145 b;-(b) ' Comites Auseri [Ossero] et Chersi [Cherso]', f. 146 b; -(c) 'Potestates Clugiæ [Chioggia]', f. 148 b;-(d) 'Duces Cretæ', f. 150 b;-(e) 'Baiuli et Capitanei Nigropontis', f. 152 b;-(f) ' Potestates Constantinopolis', f. 153 b ;-(g) ' Baiuli Venetorum in Constantinopoli', f. 154;-(h) ' Castellani Mothoni [Modon] et Coroni [Coron]', f. 155b;-(i) 'Comites Ragusii', f. 158(k) 'Comites Iadræ [Zara]', f. 159b;-(1) 'Potestates Parentii [Parenzo] ', f. 161 b;-(m) ' Potestates et Capitanei Iustinopolis [Capo d'Istria]', f. 163 b;-(n) 'Capitanei Paisenatici Istriæ [Pisino al. Mitterburg]', f. 166 b;-(o) 'Comites Sibenici [Sebenico], f. 167 b; -(p) ' Comites Tragurii [Trau al. Trogir]', f. 168 b;-(q) 'Comites Spalatri', f. 169 b;-(r) ' Comites Nonæ ', f. 170 b ;-(s) 'Rectores Marchæ Triuisanæ', viz. (i) ' Potestates et Capitanei Taruisii' [Treviso], f. 171b ;-(ii) ' Potestates Coneglani', f. 173 b ;-(iii)'Potestates Serrauallis', f. 175 b;-(iv) ' Potestates Asili, [Asolo], f. 177 b;-(v)..'Potestates Castri Franchi f. 178 b;- (vi) ' Potestates Opitergii' [Oderzo], f. 179 b-(vii) 'Potostates Mestrae', f. 180 b; - (t) 'Potestates Montonæ, f. 181 b; - (u) 'Comites Polæ', f. 183 b;-(v) 'Potestates Pirani', f. 184 b;-(w) ' Potestates In-' sulæ' [ Isola, in Istria], f. 186 b.

15. Notes relating to the elections of Procurators of S. Mark's and the money spent by them on the fabric of the church, 975- 1517, with continuations 1570-1573 in a later hand. Ital. f. 194.

16. (a) 'Modus scribendi per Ducem Venetiarum Imperatori Constantinopolitano', (b) ' Modus scribendi, uacante ducatu per obitum Ducis', (c) 'Hic modus obseruatur in creatione Ducum Venetiarum'. f. 197. At the end, in the same hand, are the two inscriptions (a) 'Exemplata et scripta fuit hæc Cronica anno Domini currente MCCCLIIII, mense Octobri, tunc ducante . . . Marino Faledro' (evidently copied from the archetype, cf. inscriptions on f. 15, noted above); -(b) ' Iterum deinde exemplata fuit anno sexto principatus ... Hieronimi Prioli Ducis Venetiarum, anno scilicet Domini MDLXIIII mense Augusto'. f. 197 b. On a fly-leaf preceding the Chronicle are extracts from the constitutions of the city, dated 1443 and 1480, regulating ladies' head-dress, and notes relating to the exchange value of the ducat, 1380-1555. ff. 1, 1 b. This leaf is followed by thirteen inserted leaves of smaller size, containing a ' Cronica compendiosa gestorum et ducum Venetorum' down to Sebastiano Ziani, elected 1173 (not 1180, as in the MS.) ; imperfect at the end, but continued in another hand to Francesco Foscari, el. 1423. At the foot of the first page is a roughly sketched shield of arms (on a bend three escallops) with the inscription 'Di Antonio Pellegrini fu di M. Marco da S. Gregorio'. Beg. Venetia ab antiquis historiographis'. ff. 2- 14 b. At the end of the volume are inserted (a) Diary of Venetian events from 12 Oct. 1524 to 12 July, 1525. Ital, f. 199;-(b) Another, in the same hand but much briefer, 29 July, 1523-23 May, 1537. f. 205;-(c) ' Causa per la qualle quelli di Malamoco sono asenti d'ogni fatione'. f. 207. Paper; ff. 209. 13¹/₈ in. x 9 in. XVI cent. Gatherings (ff. 15- 197) of 8 leaves (xviii⁸-xxii¹⁰), signed a-z. Ff. 106-108 mutilated. Belonged to Joseph Smith, Consul at Venice, Bibl. Smith., p. ccl, col. ii. Vellum binding, with arms as on nos. 14, 15, &c.