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Chronica Bossiana : Donati Bossii causidici & ciuis Mediolane[n]sis, gestor[um] dictorumq[ue] memorabilium & tempor[um] ac co[n]ditionu[m] & mutationum humanarum ab orbis initio usq[ue] ad eius tempora liber ...

Bossius, Donatus, 1436-approximately 1500, author.; Gallerato, Prospero, approximately 1550- former owner.; Horigonus, Johannes Jacobus, former owner.; Zarotto, Antonio, printer.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Chronica Bossiana : Donati Bossii causidici & ciuis Mediolane[n]sis, gestor[um] dictorumq[ue] memorabilium & tempor[um] ac co[n]ditionu[m] & mutationum humanarum ab orbis initio usq[ue] ad eius tempora liber ...
Created/published
Impressum fuit in inclyta ciuitate Mediolani : P[er] ... Antonium Zarotum Parmensem, ad impensas ... Donati Bossii, ciuis Mediolanensis ..., 1492 Calendis Martiis [1 Mar]
Description
[336] p. : 1 geneal. table (woodcut) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Bossius, Donatus, 1436-approximately 1500, author.
Gallerato, Prospero, approximately 1550- former owner.
Horigonus, Johannes Jacobus, former owner.
Zarotto, Antonio, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Caption title (leaf a2r).

Includes "Omnes Episcopi & Archiepiscopi Mediolani" at end.

Imprint extracted from colophon (leaf y4r).

Signatures: a-r⁸, s¹⁰, t⁶, u⁸, x-y⁴ (c3 signed b3).

The geneal. table, printed in red on leaf a1v is captioned: Genealogia Vicecomitum Principum Mediolani descendentium de Inuorio Ducatus Mediolani.

Capital spaces with guide letters on leaves a2, a4 and a5.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, B-1040
GW 4952
BM 15th cent., VI, p. 722 (IB.26067)
Includes
Series episcoporum et archiepiscoporum Mediolanensium. 1492.
Genre/form
Annotations.
Manicules.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Milan.

Call number
INC B925
Folger-specific note
Edges have been trimmed affecting some of the manuscript notes; leaf g8, torn, has been repaired, slightly affecting marginalia. Early manuscript notes in several hands and a few manicules in brown ink in margins; some manuscript additions in geneal. table. Manuscript numbering of leaves in red ink, starting on leaf a2, reading: 1-163, 1-4. Calculations and inscriptions on leaf a1r, one of them reading: "Prosper Galleratus anno domini i58i etatis sue 3i librum hunc legebat" (another inscription on verso of last leaf mentions the participation of Ferrante and Prospero Gallerato in the peace process between Parma and the Count Renato Borromeo on May 16, 1601); on same leaf at end, inscription reading : "Ego p[res]b[yte]r Io: Iacobus Horigonus filius dñi vincentij Horigoni paroquie Sti Mabirij ... sacerdos huius prepositure [S. Materno] est ..."; handwritten shelfmark on front pastedown "Qs. VII. 24.".

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