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

Title

Teseide.

Authors

• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Other related names

• Macauley, Francis Campbell, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 254
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808623503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122592057
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3vd6p553

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy?

Summary

Manuscript of the Teseide of Boccaccio. First three folios missing. This manuscript lacks the first 20 verses and ends with verse 83 of book xii, followed by a somewhat later inscription indicating ownership of "Bartolomeo & Tomaso Cholnj[?] Chessetto [or Chessello]" and an inscription on the verso of the last leaf. The text belongs to the B group of manuscripts (cf. Salvatore Battaglia's critical edition, Florence, 1938).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Various smudges and stains. A few folios trimmed close to the text. First and last folios show evidence of conservation repairs. In some places the rebinding has virtually eliminated the gutter.
   

Extent

66 leaves : 295 x 212 (249 x 190) mm bound to 303 x 223 mm

Foliation

Paper, iv + 66 + iv; 4-23, [24-29], 30-69; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Full brown Niger; bound by R. R. Donnelley, 1953.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 38-40 lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Red used on some earlier pages for headings and highlights, with 2 red initials (f. 4v, 5r).

Script

Written in a cursive script by two different hands.

Provenance

• Bartolomeo and Tomaso Cholnj[?] Chessetto [or Chessello] (inscription, f. 69r).
   
• Gift of Francis Campbell Macauley, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--14th century
• Italian poetry--14th century
• Italian poetry
• Italian literature

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Literature
• Poetry
• Paper

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