A Description of the Christian and Muslim Terrestrial Military Forces at the Beginning of the 15th Century, According to Manuscript It. VII, 2052 [= 8981] at Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
A Description of the Christian and Muslim Terrestrial Military Forces at the Beginning of the 15th Century, According to Manuscript It. VII, 2052 [= 8981] at Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

Summary/Abstract: The following text represents a fragment from a manuscript that I dealt with a time ago, when referring to the chronicle ascribed to Camillo Abbiosi of Ravenna. I reiterate here the description of this codex preserved at Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. Dated in the 16th century, the manuscript inventoried as It. VII, 2052 (8981) was acquired by Marciana in 1889. It is bound in parchment and counts 149 leaves. In Carlo Campana’s catalogue of the library, it is regarded as “Camillo Abbiosi, Cronaca di Venezia sino all’anno 1443.” The only modern scholar that has dealt with it by now, Freddy Thiriet, regarded the writing as being clear and belonging to one and the same handwriting. The chronicle included in this manuscript has the following incipit: “Qua comenza la cronicha de tutta la prouintia de Veniesia […]” and continues with presenting the legend of Attila the Hun. The chronicle in this codex ends with the explicit: “[…] di 50 danari della qual cosa la Signoria è compiasette come al domandava” (p. 149b), referring to a request of assistance from the Marquis of Ferrara (Ercole) in 1443, during the dogeship of Francesco Foscari (1423-1457).

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