Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1251: Comitis Gabutii de Montealbodio juveniles & amatoriae epistolae University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1251: Comitis Gabutii de Montealbodio juveniles & amatoriae epistolae are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from title page (f. 1r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1251 9943858813503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244794150 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4385881 Contains six romantic letters from Conte Gabuzzi of Montalboddo in hexameter verse, for the bishop Zacharias Contugius of Assisi. Letters 1, 2, and 4 are addressed to Philomena, 3 is a response from Philomena, 5 is to Constantie Ravennati, and 6 is titled Laudatiae Tholentinati. Latin Comitis Gabutii de Montealbodio juveniles & amatoriae epistolae Gabuzzi, conte

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 8 leaves : 220 x 145 (165) mm. bound to 220 x 150 mm Paper, 8; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Written in 20-22 long lines. Written in an italic cursive hand, probably the same hand as in UPenn Ms. Codex 1250.

Marbled paper cover (Zacour-Hirsch).

Written in Montalboddo[?] in the first quarter of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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