MALVEZZI, Jacopo (fl. 15th cent.). Chronicon urbis Brixiae usque ad annum 1332 , in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Brescia, 15th century] Royal 4° (280 x 205mm). 144 leaves, plus 5 ruled blanks and one text leaf before f.1 and 50 ruled blanks following f.144: 1-18 8 , horizontal catchwords below text at right on final verso of each quire, frame-ruled in blind or lead, ca. 27 lines written in brown ink in a humanistic cursive hand, justification 220 x 145mm, unrubricated, 2-line initial spaces with guide letters in a later hand, chapter numbers and titles in brown ink in a 17th-century hand, corrections and marginalia in hands of the 15th-17th centuries (thumbed, occasional unobtrusive spots or stains, light dampstaining in upper margins of first quires). 18th-century vellum over pasteboard; modern black morocco box. PROVENANCE: 1. 'Laurentius parisius ...', purchase (?) notice on verso of last blank leaf 2. Unidentified cardinal's armorial ink stamp, f. 1 3. Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827): his bookplate inside upper cover 4. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his no. 5842 on spine label ( The Phillipps Manuscripts , ed. A.N.L. Munby, reprint ed., London 1968). Jacopo Malvezzi, a physician of Brescia, explains in the prologue to this history of his city that he decided to write it after working on an Italian translation of the history of the Maccabees during a period when the plague had forced him to flee from Brescia to the shores of Lake Garda. Inspired by the histories of the Hebrews, the Greeks, and the Romans, and recognizing the significance of Brescia in the history of Lombardy, he drew on ancient sources to write the history of the city from its founding, between the time of Aeneas and that of Romulus, down to the period when Brescia was controlled by the tyrant Ezzelino da Romano (1258) and the families of the Pallavicini, Torriani and Scaligeri. The chronicle ends with an account of a victory of the Guelfs over the Ghibellines in 1332; although the story stops abruptly, the final chapter is followed in this manuscript by the word 'Finis', and the printed edition ends at the same place. In this manuscript another 15th-century hand has added to the following page a note stating that in 1335 the city came under the domination of the Visconti, an event which in fact occurred in 1421. Malvezzi's chronicle was published by L.A. Muratori, who called it the only early history of Brescia to survive ( Rerum italicarum scriptores , XIV, Milan 1739, pp.773-1003). In the version of the prologue published by Muratori, Malvezzi's decision to write is dated to 1412, whereas the present codex gives the date as 1432. The manuscript used by Muratori was, according to his preface, dated 11 April 1461. The printed text is prefaced by a 'Proemium auctoris', consisting of 15 heroic couplets; in the present manuscript the same poem was added to the blank leaf before f.1 of the chronicle by the same hand that entered the chapter titles in the text.
MALVEZZI, Jacopo (fl. 15th cent.). Chronicon urbis Brixiae usque ad annum 1332 , in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Brescia, 15th century] Royal 4° (280 x 205mm). 144 leaves, plus 5 ruled blanks and one text leaf before f.1 and 50 ruled blanks following f.144: 1-18 8 , horizontal catchwords below text at right on final verso of each quire, frame-ruled in blind or lead, ca. 27 lines written in brown ink in a humanistic cursive hand, justification 220 x 145mm, unrubricated, 2-line initial spaces with guide letters in a later hand, chapter numbers and titles in brown ink in a 17th-century hand, corrections and marginalia in hands of the 15th-17th centuries (thumbed, occasional unobtrusive spots or stains, light dampstaining in upper margins of first quires). 18th-century vellum over pasteboard; modern black morocco box. PROVENANCE: 1. 'Laurentius parisius ...', purchase (?) notice on verso of last blank leaf 2. Unidentified cardinal's armorial ink stamp, f. 1 3. Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827): his bookplate inside upper cover 4. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his no. 5842 on spine label ( The Phillipps Manuscripts , ed. A.N.L. Munby, reprint ed., London 1968). Jacopo Malvezzi, a physician of Brescia, explains in the prologue to this history of his city that he decided to write it after working on an Italian translation of the history of the Maccabees during a period when the plague had forced him to flee from Brescia to the shores of Lake Garda. Inspired by the histories of the Hebrews, the Greeks, and the Romans, and recognizing the significance of Brescia in the history of Lombardy, he drew on ancient sources to write the history of the city from its founding, between the time of Aeneas and that of Romulus, down to the period when Brescia was controlled by the tyrant Ezzelino da Romano (1258) and the families of the Pallavicini, Torriani and Scaligeri. The chronicle ends with an account of a victory of the Guelfs over the Ghibellines in 1332; although the story stops abruptly, the final chapter is followed in this manuscript by the word 'Finis', and the printed edition ends at the same place. In this manuscript another 15th-century hand has added to the following page a note stating that in 1335 the city came under the domination of the Visconti, an event which in fact occurred in 1421. Malvezzi's chronicle was published by L.A. Muratori, who called it the only early history of Brescia to survive ( Rerum italicarum scriptores , XIV, Milan 1739, pp.773-1003). In the version of the prologue published by Muratori, Malvezzi's decision to write is dated to 1412, whereas the present codex gives the date as 1432. The manuscript used by Muratori was, according to his preface, dated 11 April 1461. The printed text is prefaced by a 'Proemium auctoris', consisting of 15 heroic couplets; in the present manuscript the same poem was added to the blank leaf before f.1 of the chronicle by the same hand that entered the chapter titles in the text.
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