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

Title

Collection of poems

Other related names

• Farnese, Ranuccio, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, 1630-1694, dedicatee
• Giorgini, Marolino, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 257
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580872
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580872

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1680

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of poems of various types, possibly though not certainly by one author. Contains amorous as well as spiritual poems; madrigals are interspersed towards the end. One poem is identified as an imitation of Tasso (f. 12r); one is addressed to Marolino Giorgini (f. 17v), another to Ranuccio Farnese (f. 29r). Much oxidation and some text trimmed.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; rubbed and virtually illegible writing on spine.
   

Extent

100 leaves : 199 x 130 mm. bound to 208 x 144 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 100 + i; 1-25⁴, gatherings signed 1-24, upper left first recto; 1-100, contemporary foliation with arabic numerals in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Parchment, contemporary or slightly later. Writing on the inside of the parchment cover sheet, likely a discarded document, visible through the outside of the front and back covers.

Script

Written in cursive script, mostly by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1955.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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