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

Title

Erotopaignion

Authors

• Angeriano, Girolamo, 16th cent

Other related names

• Castillione, Joannes Jacobus de, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 838
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931779813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/188934506
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3177981

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with title and final words in Greek and notes inside the covers in Greek and Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1510

Place

Naples?

Summary

Collection of short Latin poems in elegiac couplets, many of which are addressed to "Caelia."

Notes

• Title and attribution from caption heading (f. 1r).
   
• Alternate title represents the spelling used for some published versions of Angeriano's work.
   
• Incipit: Libellus ad lectorem. Doctrinam si forte cupis, si forte lepores/Pierios, Domini ne lege scripta mei...
   
• Explicit: Non hic corpus adest, non hic cinis ater, at una/flamma calens, cremat haec flamma. Viator abi. Telos est to.
   
• Dedicated to Joannes Jacobus de Castillione, archbishop of Bari, (f. 1r).
   

Extent

35 leaves : 194 x 146 (148 x 85) mm. bound to 196 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 35; [1-35]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original cardboard wrapper (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 30-32 long lines.

Script

Written in one humanistic hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• Italian
• Italy

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