[ Rime istoriche de fatti di Giulio PP. II
Contributors: Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1466-1519 (association); Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888. (bookplate); Thompson, Herbert, Sir, 1859-1944 (association)
Published: 1507
Place of publication: Italy]
Language: ita
Format: Manuscript
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Julius -- II, -- Pope, -- 1443-1513; Manuscripts, Italian; Italy -- History -- 16th century
Notes: Italian "lettres bâtardes"; long lines, 30 to a full page (11 x 16.5 cm.).

Written in Italian by one hand in black ink with red, blue and gold mounted initials; red and blue paragraph marks.

Two water colour miniatures of the Madonna and Child at the verso of leaves 2 & 24;  coat of arms of the Gonzaga family at the recto of leaf 3.  Cf. Famiglie nobili in Lombardia, v. 2.

Colophon: Qui finisse Bernardo de Aua[n]cino, Climaco nomi[n]ato, compositore, di fatti successi del vero distino ha laude et honore del mio signore sotto el millesimo ... cinquece[n]te et sette ...

Dedication copy to Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua.

Unknown eye-witness account of Pope Julius II's conquest of the Bentivoglio of Bologna in November 1506.  Includes similar accounts of events in Ferrara and Mantua at this time, including the attempt to assassinate the Duke of Ferrara, and the elevation of Sigismondo Gonzaga to the cardinal's dignity.

Almost certainly formed part of the library of the Dukes of Mantua until its dispersal about 1620.

The work is listed in G.M. Mazzucchelli's Scrittori d'Italia (which was printed in Brescia in 1573), v. 1, part 2, p. 1228 under "Avanzino".

Cf. de Ricci & Wilson, v. 2, p. 2237, no. 16; Bond & Faye, Supplement, p. 534; Sotheby's Catalogue of illuminated and other manuscripts (1903), no. 72.

With the armorial seal bookplate of Walter Sneyd.

Ex libris Sir Herbert Thompson.

Also available in microfilm: mfm dup 399.

Acquired from the ROM, 15 Apr. 1968.

The gift of Sir Herbert Thompson to the ROM, April 1921, #295.