REGGIO EMILIA -- CRONICA AD PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM 1228-1354, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Reggio Emilia, first half of the 15th century] Royal 4° (280 x 210mm). 48 leaves: 1-4 1 2 , horizontal catchwords in lower margin on last versos, single columns of ca. 38 lines, unruled, justification: 205 x 160mm, written in brown ink in a semi-cursive hand, rubrics in red, opening initial and paragraph signs in red, extensive early and later marginalia (browned, thumbed, waterstains in upper margin). 19th-century parchment-backed boards; modern black morocco box. PROVENANCE: 1. Early Bolognese owner: marginalia pointing out references to Bologna, 16th-century additions relating to events in Bologna. 2. Riginus Gualterus, inscription, f.36. 3. Sogarius family, inscriptions, ff.26v, 31; Romanus Sogarius, inscription, f.1; D. Jan Franciscus Sogarius, inscription, f.1. 4. Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), bookplate. 5. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), Middle Hill no. 6060 on spine ( The Phillipps Manuscripts , ed. A.N.L. Munby, reprint ed., London 1968). CONTENTS: For the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia, as for other Italian cities of the period, the 13th and 14th centuries were a time of rapid political change and frequent warfare. At the beginning of the 13th century Reggio found itself in conflict with Modena over water rights and with Cremona and Mantua over territorial issues. In 1252 a Ghibelline comune was established, to be replaced by a Guelf government in 1265. There followed a period of conflict among the great families of the city, during which the guilds established a popular government. This was replaced in 1290 by the signoria of Obizzo d'Este, whose son and successor Azzo was overthrown in 1306 with the aid of Parma. Another popular government, the Corporazioni d'Arte, with a council composed of 800 citizens, was overthrown in 1326, after which the city was dominated by a series of overlords. In 1336 Reggio passed into the control of the Gonzagas, who sold it in 1370 to Bernarbò Visconti. Much of this eventful period is covered by the present chronicle, which concentrates on the affairs of Reggio, while mentioning events in other northern Italian cities and in Rome and referring also to affairs of the papacy and the Empire. The text begins with a reference to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800, jumps to the 12th century which it covers with a series of brief references to major events in the history of Reggio or northern Italy, and becomes more detailed as the 13th century advances. The last long entry refers to events of 1354, and the final entry is a brief reference to the coronation of the emperor Charles IV with the Iron Crown of Lombard at Epiphany, 1355. Copious marginalia show that the text, which is apparently unpublished, was read and studied in the later Middle Ages and after. Several additions at the end, in Italian, refer to events in Bologna in the early 16th century.
REGGIO EMILIA -- CRONICA AD PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM 1228-1354, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER. [Reggio Emilia, first half of the 15th century] Royal 4° (280 x 210mm). 48 leaves: 1-4 1 2 , horizontal catchwords in lower margin on last versos, single columns of ca. 38 lines, unruled, justification: 205 x 160mm, written in brown ink in a semi-cursive hand, rubrics in red, opening initial and paragraph signs in red, extensive early and later marginalia (browned, thumbed, waterstains in upper margin). 19th-century parchment-backed boards; modern black morocco box. PROVENANCE: 1. Early Bolognese owner: marginalia pointing out references to Bologna, 16th-century additions relating to events in Bologna. 2. Riginus Gualterus, inscription, f.36. 3. Sogarius family, inscriptions, ff.26v, 31; Romanus Sogarius, inscription, f.1; D. Jan Franciscus Sogarius, inscription, f.1. 4. Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), bookplate. 5. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), Middle Hill no. 6060 on spine ( The Phillipps Manuscripts , ed. A.N.L. Munby, reprint ed., London 1968). CONTENTS: For the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia, as for other Italian cities of the period, the 13th and 14th centuries were a time of rapid political change and frequent warfare. At the beginning of the 13th century Reggio found itself in conflict with Modena over water rights and with Cremona and Mantua over territorial issues. In 1252 a Ghibelline comune was established, to be replaced by a Guelf government in 1265. There followed a period of conflict among the great families of the city, during which the guilds established a popular government. This was replaced in 1290 by the signoria of Obizzo d'Este, whose son and successor Azzo was overthrown in 1306 with the aid of Parma. Another popular government, the Corporazioni d'Arte, with a council composed of 800 citizens, was overthrown in 1326, after which the city was dominated by a series of overlords. In 1336 Reggio passed into the control of the Gonzagas, who sold it in 1370 to Bernarbò Visconti. Much of this eventful period is covered by the present chronicle, which concentrates on the affairs of Reggio, while mentioning events in other northern Italian cities and in Rome and referring also to affairs of the papacy and the Empire. The text begins with a reference to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800, jumps to the 12th century which it covers with a series of brief references to major events in the history of Reggio or northern Italy, and becomes more detailed as the 13th century advances. The last long entry refers to events of 1354, and the final entry is a brief reference to the coronation of the emperor Charles IV with the Iron Crown of Lombard at Epiphany, 1355. Copious marginalia show that the text, which is apparently unpublished, was read and studied in the later Middle Ages and after. Several additions at the end, in Italian, refer to events in Bologna in the early 16th century.
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