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

Title

Il Genesi

Authors

• Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556

Call number

Ms. Codex 244
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448514
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580854

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1550

Place

Italy

Summary

Poetical paraphrase of Genesis by Pietro Aretino.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch) and from description pasted inside upper cover; see also f. 1r, 2r and 3r.
   
• Spine title: Prefatio nel Genesi.
   
• Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch and from description pasted inside upper cover.
   
• Some oxidation of ink in places, occasionally making the text hard to read.
   
• Binding pulling loose in places; spine breaking between ff. 36-37. Cover splitting, cracking and peeling at spine and at edges.
   

Extent

109 leaves : 211 x 136 (154 x 86) mm. bound to 215 x 137 mm

Foliation

Paper, 109; [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script

Written in a 16th-century humanistic script by a single hand, allegedly in the autograph of Pietro Aretino (seller's description, inside upper cover).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Vicentius Marini (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Appears in Weiss cat. 1 (1926), no. 3.
   
• Sold by Martin Breslauer, cat. 67 (1949), no. 7.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--Early works to 1800
• Italian poetry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Christian
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• Bible
• Biblical

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover