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

Title

Rime di Tonello

Authors

• Quinziano, Giulio
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Call number

Ms. Codex 247
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486448
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486448

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1675 and 1725

Place

Italy

Summary

Poems in the dialects of Bergamo and Brescia, attributed to Tonello (Giulio Quinziano?). Possibly a paraphrase of Petrarch.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r). Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
   

Extent

134 leaves : 267 x 205 (148 x 116) mm. bound to 275 x 212 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 134 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-24, [i], 25-130, [i]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto. Leaf between f. 24-25 evidently skipped by accident when the folios were numbered. Other unnumbered leaves, at beginning and end, have no text.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary tooled red morocco with gold stamping. Edges of book block gilded and stamped with a vine-leaf design. Cover slightly cracked at spine, splitting at hinges. Paper damaged in places due to oxidation of ink.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand. Every page has an ink border and the caption "Rime di T." written above the poem. Text written only on the recto of each folio.

Provenance

• Former owners include (details from notes of Angelina Feo Light): Jacopo Soranzo (1686-1761), Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1806) and Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Martin Breslauer (London), 1947.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--16th century
• Italian literature--17th century
• Italian poetry--16th century
• Italian poetry--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 1r