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

Title

Sette salmi penitenziali ... etc.

Authors

• Davanzati, Mariotto
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Other related names

• Rossi, Pino de, fl. 1360, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 366
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915810093503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122318266
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3bw1f http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581009

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

circa 1460

Place

Tuscany?, Italy

Summary

The Penitential Psalms, in terza rima. Also contains two other works: Mariotto Davanzati's Trattato dell'amicizia, in terza rima; and Boccaccio's Lettera consolitaria a Pino de Rossi, in which Boccaccio attempts to offer consolation to Pino de Rossi after his exile from Florence. Some staining and faded ink.

Notes

• Titles supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 1. f.1r-8v: Sette salmi penitentiziali, in terza rima (incipit: Signor nel tuo furor non mi riprehendere ... ). -- 2. f.9r-14r: Trattato dell'amicizia, in terza rima (incipit: Quel divo ingiegno qual per voi sinfuse ... ) / Mariotto Davanzati. -- 3. f.14v-36r: Lettera consolitaria a M. Pino de Rossi (incipit: Io extimo messer Pino che sia non solamente utile ma necessario ... ) / Giovanni Boccaccio.
   

Extent

42 leaves : 160 x 102 (114 x 55) mm bound to 175 x 110 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (parchment pasted to modern paper) + i (parchment) + 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th- or 19th-century velvet over boards.

Layout

Written in 24 long lines; ruled in drypoint and ink.

Decoration

Historiated illuminated initial with King David and illuminated foliate border (f. 1r); illuminated initials throughout; red used for headings and initials.

Script

Written in humanistic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 44 (1948), no. 38a.
   
• Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1961.
   

Subjects topical

• Friendship--Early works to 1800
• Exile (Punishment) in literature
• Italian literature--Early works to 1800
• Italian poetry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• illuminations (paintings)

Keywords

• 15th century
• Illumination
• Literature -- Poetry
• Friendship
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sette salmi penitentiziali, in terza rima, f. 1r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Inhabited initial, Initial S, David, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 2v
• fol. 4r — Illuminated initial, Initial M, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 5r
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 7v
• fol. 9r — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 9r