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

Title

Poema sopra le guerre dall'anno 1733 a tutto 1746 ... etc.

Authors

• Senna, Servio

Other related names

• Silva, Donato de, 18th cent, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 417
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486588
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486588

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian (f. 1r-26r) and Latin (f. 27r-104v)

Origin

Place

Italy, after 1746

Summary

Collection of 18th-century Latin and Italian verse. 2 long works concern the War of Polish Succession (f. 1r-19v, 26r) and the War of Austrian Succession (f. 30r-104v), with a short poem possibly on the 1740 funeral of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (f. 20r-24r) and an epistle in verse to an aristocratic patron, Donato de Silva, written on a larger bifolium, tipped in and folded (f. 27r-28v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title page of first work (f. 1r).
   

Extent

104 leaves : 185 x 140 mm. bound to 193 x 149 mm

Foliation

Paper, 104; [1-104], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch), gilt spine with worm damage.

Layout

Works written in various verse formats; predominant work frame-ruled in lead (f. 30r-104v).

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
• Italian poetry--18th century
• Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748
• Polish Succession, War of, 1733-1738

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Poema sopra le guerre dall?anno 1733 a tutto 1746, f. 1r
• fol. 20r — I funerali del Re di Prussia [Friedrich Wilhelm I, 1740?] ideati dalla fantasia di Servio Senna, f. 20r
• fol. 26r — Conclusion of Poema sopra le guerre dall?anno 1733 a tutto 1746, stanzas 213-216, f. 26r
• fol. 27r — Illustrissimo Domino Comiti Donato de Silva inter ceteros benefactori maximo epistola, f. 27r
• fol. 30r — Belli Italici et praeclariorum eius gestorum compendiosa descriptio, f. 30r