Some Considerations regarding Manuscripts It. VII, 1274- 1275 at Marciana National Library, ascribed to Gasparo Zancaruolo
Some Considerations regarding Manuscripts It. VII, 1274- 1275 at Marciana National Library, ascribed to Gasparo Zancaruolo

Summary/Abstract: It was in 19671 when an exchange of manuscripts took place between Marciana National Library in Venice and Braidense National Library in Milan. According to it, the manuscript that had previously been inventoried as It. VII, 1274-1275 at Marciana, representing an 18th century copy of the former codices It. VII, 49-50, which in the meantime became Braidense AG X 15-16, was released to the Milanese library; in exchange the 15th century original was returned to Marciana2 . The librarians at Marciana did not operate the changings in the catalogues, so that nowadays what is in the inventories It. VII, 1274-1275 is exactly the original of the chronicle dated in the 16th century. As another result of this exchange, what the scholars have regarded around five decades ago as It. VII, 49-50 or Braidense AG X 15-16 is today in the inventory It. VII, 1274-1275. The using paper notes: “Cronaca Veneta ... Zancaruolo. 2 volume”, while the Marcian catalogue “Ital. VII.”, beside the title of “Cronaca Veneta supposta di Gasparo Zancaruolo, dall’origine della Città fino al 1446”, with reference to It. VII, 49-50, one could find the information that it had been “Ceduta alla Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense di Milano (in 1967)” and its provenience is from Girolamo Contarini.

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