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Title

Scelti di canzuni siciliani

Call number

Ms. Codex 396
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486575
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486575

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1699

Place

Sicily

Summary

Collection of about 800 poems in Sicilian dialect by Antoni Vinizianu, Cesaru or Zesaru Gravina, Liuni Russelli [=Leone Rosselli?], Micheli Moraschinu, Giuseppi Durazzu, Jacupu Morellu, Gabrieli Ciceru or Cicero, Giuseppi Morettu, Vincenzu Giuffrè [=Gioffre?], Antoni Carvuni [or Carvoni, Carvini?], Giuseppi Galeanu, Andrá Rizzu, Gilormu La M'ana or Lamanna, Petru La Dunzella, Franciscu Gaita, and "di diversi." Names from table of contents (f. ii recto); alphabetical index of beginnings of verses at end of volume. According to the table of contents, numbered f. 137-146 are missing, containing the work Luntananza di Frà Don Cesaru Gravina.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

315 leaves : 205 x 153 mm. bound to 210 x 159 mm

Foliation

Paper, 315; [iv], 1-136, 147-254, [lxvii], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [iv, 1-311]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Upper and lower pastedown have come loose. References in this record are to the contemporary foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary gilt morocco. Leather from upper and lower edges of spine missing.

Decoration

Illuminated title with foliated design and illuminated initial (f. 1r).

Script

Written in a cursive script by one hand, with the exception of a few additions, (f. 253r-254r).

Subjects topical

• Folk songs, Italian
• Italian poetry--Early works to 1800
• Italian poetry--Italy--Sicily

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated heading, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 1r