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

Title

Sicilian religious poetry

Other related names

• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 357
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580996
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580996

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, in the Sicilian dialect

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1625

Place

Sicily

Summary

Collection of 60 poems in ottava rima on various religious themes. The author is unknown, but was probably an ecclesiastic.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Brief description, probably by an unidentified bookseller, on file in the Library.
   

Extent

148 leaves : 94 x 140 (46 x 83) mm. bound to 99 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 160; [1-160]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary limp vellum. Cover is worn and slightly loose. Various stains and smudges. Edges of some leaves worn.

Script

Written in a single delicate cursive hand, possibly that of the author.

Provenance

• Formerly part of the Giuseppe Martini collection.
   
• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature, Italian
• Italian literature--Italy--Sicily
• Italian poetry--17th century
• Religious poetry, Italian

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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