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

Title

Epistolae latinae

Authors

• Bonfadio, Jacopo, d. 1550
• Hesius, Ricardus

Call number

Ms. Codex 853
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931780143503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490160
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178014

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Italian, with a few words in Greek

Origin

Date

1598-1612

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of 24 model letters in Latin, several dated 1598. These letters are numbered 1-26, with 11 and 19 missing. Later additions of 6 letters in Latin by Ricardus Hesius dated 1603 and 1604 at the end (f. 23v-29v), and 7 Italian letters copied in spaces between Latin letters, including 2 dated 1612 and a copy of a 1541 letter by Jacomo Bonfadio (f. 14v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

31 leaves : 207 x 138 (167 x 105) mm. bound to 210 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, 31; [1-31]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary paper boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 29-30 long lines with vertical bounding lines in lead.

Script

Written in several cursive hands (one hand for the original 24 letters, f. 1r-23r; two hands for the Hesius letters, f. 23v-28r and 29r-29v; and one hand for the Italian letters, scattered from f. 12v to f. 31v).

Provenance

• Sold by Libreria Nironi & Prandi, 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin letters, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800
• Italian letters--Early works to 1800
• Letter writing--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italy
• Paper
• Italian

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