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Preface is that the Codex is addressed to his son ‘Iohannes’. Surviving archival records indicate that Pellegrino and his family traveled from the County of Provençe to Acre in the second half of the thirteenth century, where he established himself as a prominent financier, sat as a jurist in the
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in the first quarter of the fourteenth century for the
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A. Scorza, Libro d’oro della nobiltà di Genova (Genoa: Edizioni Orsini de Marzo, 1920); Liber nobilitatis serenissimae Reip. Genuensis ad exemplar exactus, quod in regio palatio diligentissime adservatur ab anno 1576 ad annum 1757 additis cuiusque familiae stemmatibus gentilitiis, I (BcB, M. R. CF.
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rich program of illustration appearing on every page that has attracted attention and garnered high praise. The Codex is generally regarded one of the most astonishing products of medieval
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around 1300. The family prospered in Genoa and came to attain a high social standing, listed in genealogical tables composed in the seventeenth century as one of the 865 legally designated
Genoese noble families.
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in 1930. It, and another two leaves (Egerton 3127 ff. 1–2v), were acquired by a German book dealer and on-sold. A single leaf (Egerton 3781) turned up in 1968 as part of the estate of an
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Notarial acts show that
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Concina. Unfolding the Cocharelli Codex: some preliminary observations about the text, with a theory about the order of the fragments
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Concina. Unfolding the Cocharelli Codex: some preliminary observations about the text, with a theory about the order of the fragments
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between 1269 and 1274, and joined the Hospital of St John taking on the role of servicing the Order's loans. Political instability in the
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1 leaf is at the Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, Ohio Wade Fund MS. n. 1953.152. "Treatise on the Vices, Acedia and Her Court"
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The manuscript is incomplete and dismembered: 27 leaves and cuttings are preserved in three institutions: London,
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Chiara Concina. The Cocharelli Codex as a Source for the History of the Latin East: The Fall of Tripoli and Acre
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