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

Title

Poetical miscellany

Call number

Ms. Codex 259
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122410790
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580874

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1600

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of poems.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Generally in good condition. Cover wearing and splitting at hinges. Some evidence of worm damage, especially on inside lower cover.
   

Extent

85 leaves : 211 x 153 (225 x 205) mm. bound to 222 x 161 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 85 + i (contemporary paper); [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary Italian gilt morocco with gauffered page edges. Lower cover has a medallion with a red fleur-de-lis design. Upper cover medallion also had a design but it has largely been worn away; it appears to have included an animal and a book.

Layout

Written in 14 lines of verse.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henry Chandon de Briailles (bookplates, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.
   

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
• Paper

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover