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

Title

Il tempio di castitade

Authors

• Nardi Galatheo, Giovan Theseo de

Other related names

• Margaret, of Austria, Duchess of Parma, 1522-1586, dedicatee
• Lippo, Pietro, dedicatee
• Piscicello, Hettore, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 250
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122638227
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580860

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1553

Place

Rome

Summary

Collection of poems, dedicated to Margaret (Margherita) of Austria. Also contains dedications to Pietro Lippo and Hettore Piscicello (f. 1v, 3r), Galatheo's patrons.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

30 leaves : 210 x 137 (137 x 95) mm. bound to 214 x 140 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i + 30 + i; 1-30; later foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern vellum. Some of the ink is flaked off and faded. There is some worm hole damage. On some leaves the trimming has cut away the edge of the text. Various smudges and stains. There are traces of gilding on the edges of the leaves.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

Illuminated crest and coat of arms on title page (f. 1r).

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script, possibly in the hand of the author. After the end of the text there is one line of Latin in a later hand (f. 30r). There is also a note in Italian on the front flyleaf verso in a much later hand.

Provenance

• Sold by C. E. Brulot, cat. 277 (1951), no. 6.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated coat of arms, f. 1r