Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Trattato come si coltivino li giardini

Call number

Ms. Codex 294
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580906
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580906

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1675 and 1699

Place

Italy

Summary

Treatise on gardening.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Heading and incipit (f. 3r): Risposta di lettera ad un amico. Mi recerchi con gran premura la descrittione del mio giardinetto ...
   

Extent

35 leaves : 201 x 141 (162 x 113) mm. bound to 208 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 35 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-28, [iv], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; 168-202, second set of contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto; [1-35], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The second set of contemporary foliation indicates that this work was probably at one time bound into a larger volume.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards. Modern rebinding has eliminated the gutter on the verso side of each leaf and has thereby caused some text to be lost. Some stains and smudges.

Layout

Written in 23-26 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in a second hand.

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Gardening--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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