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

Title

La Faoniade: Inni ed Odi di Saffo, Poetessa di Mitilene. Traduzione dal Greco

Authors

• Sappho

Call number

Ms. Codex 360
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1581000
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581000

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy?

Summary

Anonymous original poem in the style of Sappho. Purported to be an Italian translation of a work by Sappho.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i).
   
• Sappho is the purported author. No indication of the real author.
   
• Incipit: Figlivol di Giove, O Apolline, / Che col tuo ardor fecondo... (p. 5).
   
• Brief description from unidentified bookseller on file in the Library.
   

Extent

48 leaves : 225 x 165 (165 x 119) mm. bound to 231 x 171 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 44 + ii (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-23, [24-86]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf. Cover boards very slightly warped and worn. Cover and some leaves show stains possibly due to water or mildew damage.

Script

Written in a single calligraphical hand.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--18th century
• Italian poetry--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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