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

Title

Authors

• Martinozzi, Benedetto

Other related names

• Scotta, Francesca, dedicatee
• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597263
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580941

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1475 and 1499?

Place

Italy

Summary

Prose work consisting of a set of dialogues between Tibullus and Glicera (f. 1r-12r). Also includes a second work by the same author: "Opusculum ... in amorem quo ratio ac apetitus loquentes inducuntur" (f. 12v-20v). Second work written in 400 lines of verse and consists of a dialogue between Reason and Appetite.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Spine title: Martinozzi. Dialog.
   
• Attribution from heading of first work (dedication, f. 1r): "Nobilissime puellae Francesce Scotte pudicitiae antistiti atque omnium aetatis nostrae puellarum principi Benedictus Martinozzus eques auratus salutem plurimam dicit." Italianized form of author's name taken from Zacour-Hirsch.
   
• Incipit of first work (f. 1r): Essendo purissima fanciulla stato per li tempi passati nella citta nostra con maximo excidio assalito Tibullo Giovano generoso & praeclaro ...
   
• Heading of second work (f. 12v): Opusculum Benedicti Martinozzi aequitis aurati in amorem quo ratio ac apetitus loquentes inducuntur.
   
• Incipit of second work (f. 12v): Per allentar lo immaginato exilio / Che amor contanto sforzo tiene elcore / Nel tempestoso mar senza navilio / ...
   
• Some stains. Ink faded a bit in places.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

3-line illuminated initial E with white vine-stem (bianchi girari) ornamentation (f. 1r); 2-line illuminated initials in blue, green, white, gold, and purple in first work (f.1r-12r); rubricated throughout.

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold in the Sneyd collection at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 492.
   
• Purchased, 1925.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian literature--Early works to 1800
• Italian poetry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations (visual works)
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Illumination
• Literature -- Poetry
• Italy
• Italian
• Dialogue

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Gli amori di Tibullo e Glicera, f. 1r
• fol. 12v — Opusculum ... in amorem quo ratio ac apetitus loquentes inducuntur, f. 12v

Decorations

• Inside front cover (Note visible) — Owner note, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover (Bookplate visible) — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 5v
• fol. 6v — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 7r
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 7r
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 7r
• fol. 11v — Illuminated initial, Initial H, f. 11v
• fol. 12v — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 12v
• fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
• fol. 14v — Manicule, f. 14v
• fol. 15r — Manicule, f. 15r
• fol. 18v — Manicule, f. 18v