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

Title

Raccolta di poesie

Call number

Ms. Codex 486
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1581090
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1581090

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1700-1744

Place

Venice

Summary

Begins with "Il Carnovale," incipit: Ecco gionto il carnovale/La staggione dei bordelli ... Many poems are dedicated to specific persons, e.g., to Domencio Peretti (f. 49r, 50v); Marco Bembo (f. 61v, 67v, 73r); Francesco Fraccassetti (who had sent tobacco from England to the unnamed poet, f. 79r); Leonardo and Lucrezia Mozenigo (f. 82r, 116r), and Giorgio Alleprandi (f. 86r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Inscription on f. 3r: Autore de queste poesie pare certo Pottido. Pare dalla poesia ad una monaca in St. Lorenzo che mandogli una pignatta di risi in dono (f. 75-77).
   

Extent

161 leaves : 195 x 137 (177 x 70) mm. bound to 203 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, 161; [1-161]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Faint stamp (" ... Brescia ... ") on f. 3r and 4r; ownership entries on f. 1r (dated 1744) and f. 160v made unreadable. Poem damning "Qui rapict librum" on f. 1r.
   
• Purchased, 1973.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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