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- Published / Created:
- [between 1299 and 1472]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 144
- Image Count:
- 307
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, repaired) of a Collection of original documents, copies, translations (from Greek and Turkish) of other documents of the Venetian doges of Candia, dated between 1299 and 1472, mostly in Latin with some later documents in Venetian dialect.
- Description:
- Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 11868). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Ca. 1800, Italy. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a gold-tooled red label on spine: "Monum. di Cand. Sotto il Dom. Ven. Cod. Memb"., Many of the leaves are illegible due to severe water damage and damp rot throughout; the codex emits a foul odor., and Script: Written throughout by multiple scribes in mercantesca scripts.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Crete (Greece)--History, Ērakleion (Greece), and Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal documents