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

Title

Canzoni Siciliane raccolte da diversi autori

Other related names

• Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner
• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner
• Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910, former owner
• Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 356
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580995
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580995

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, in the Sicilian dialect

Origin

Date

1653

Place

Sicily

Summary

Anthology of Sicilian dialect poetry in ottava rima, extending to nearly 700 stanzas. Apparently compiled by Domnus Josephus Amarchius.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Appears to have been compiled by a Domnus Josephus Amarchius, who wrote his name and the date beneath the title, in Greek letters: [Domnos Ēosephos Amarchēos. Anno a partou ouēpgēnēs 1653]. Only the letters are Greek--the inscription is actually written in Latin, e.g.: "anno a partu virginis". Amarchius consistently uses Greek eta [ē] to represent Latin "i". Amarchius was probably a titled nobleman or a Benedictine monk.
   
• Brief description of the item, probably by an unidentified bookseller, on file in the Library. This description was the source of some descriptive information.
   

Extent

178 leaves : 135 x 95 (109 x 85) mm. bound to 143 x 107 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 176 + ii; [i], 1-133, 133-174; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The numbers at the upper center verso appear to be stanza numbers.

Support

Paper

Binding

Venetian 18th-century parchment. Various stains and smudges.

Script

Written in a single cursive hand, probably that of the compiler.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Jacopo Soranzo (1686-1761); Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1806); Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover); Arthur John Butler (bookplate, recto of front flyleaf; Giuseppe Martini collection.
   
• Purchased, 1960.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

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