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Title

De la rapina di Proserpina

Authors

• Claudianus, Claudius

Other related names

• Sanuto, Livio, 1520-1576, translator
• Middleton, J. J, former owner
• Middleton, Henry, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 303
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809113503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122691540
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580911

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

before 1546

Place

Lombardy?

Summary

The poem De raptu Proserpinae by Claudian, in an Italian translation by Livio Sanuto.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Spine title: La rapina di Proserpina.
   
• Heading and incipit of book I (f. 1r): L'ira, l'orgoglio, et i destrieri ardenti del tiranno infernal rapace; e il carro. Onde già di fumoso halito oscuro / Il ciel si sparse, e le superne stelle / ...
   
• Inscription at end (f. 68v): 19 ienno [i.e., ianuario?] 1546 Alexandro[?]. Fascoli[?]. The manuscript appears to be 16th century in date, and the inscription on f. 68v indicates that it must have been written before 1546.
   
• Edges of book block gilded.
   
• Some stains. Ink on some folios worn and rubbed.
   

Extent

72 leaves : 210 x 148 (146 x 90) mm. bound to 218 x 149 mm

Foliation

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 72 + iii (modern paper); [ii], [1-68], [ii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern boards. Previously bound in 18th-century gilt leather; rebound at some date after Zacour-Hirsch was compiled in 1965.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Illuminated initials with foliate ornamentation (f. 1r, 17v, 42r).

Script

Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except for the inscription at the end (f. 68v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by J. J. Middleton (bookplate, inside upper cover); willed by him to Henry Middleton of South Carolina, 1849 (inscription on bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Accessioned, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Classical literature--Early works to 1800
• Latin literature--Early works to 1800
• Persephone (Greek deity) in literature

Genres

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

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 1r
• fol. 17v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 17v
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 42r