Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 927: Compendio di alcune regole di ortografia italiana The University of Pennsylvania Libraries This description is ©2016 University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It is 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/. All referenced images and their content 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/. Ms. codex. Title from caption title (p. 1). Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library Ms. Codex 927 3559154 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3559154 Compendium of the rules of Italian orthography and prosody taken from works by Daniello Bartoli and Placido Spadafora in three sections; 1) orthographic rules from Bartoli's Dell'ortografia italiana; 2) rules from Bartoli's Il torto e 'l diritto; 3) rules of prosody from Spadafora's Prosodia italiana. The manuscript includes 2 indexes (p. 164-170, p. 35-44). Compendio di alcune regole di ortografia italiana Baralino, Francesco M

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 120 leaves : 103 x 67 (88 x 42) mm. bound to 109 x 73 mm Paper, 120 leaves; [ii], 1-170, [ii], 1-49, [xvii]. Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with final section in what appears to be a second hand.

Contemporary parchment.

Written in Italy, 1701 (colophon, p. 163).

1701 Italy Formerly owned by Francesco M. Baralino (inscription, inside upper cover). Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books (Brookline, Mass.), cat. 57, 2003. Italian language--Accents and accentuation--Early works to 1800 Italian language--Grammar--Early works to 1800 Codices Manuscripts, Italian--18th century Manuscripts, European