Harvard University, MS Typ 172

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11160

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 172

Title:

Triumphs of the gentlewomen of Bologna

Date:

1547.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 18 leaves, bound : vellum ; 23 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Bruscoli, C

C. Bruscoli WIKIDATA

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944

Giuseppe Martini WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger. According to the letter, the poem is the third canto of a longer poem. Cf. "Fine del terzo canto" (f. 18r).
The poem begins "O che dolce gioir, che gran dolcezza, saria d'un huom ch'innamorato vive" and ends "Quando de le Sibille i ricchi fregi, i triomphi gl'honor, la gloria, e i pregi."
The frontispiece is a colored drawing showing the three Graces and Mercury introducing the ten Sybils to Jupiter.
Written in a calligraphic italic hand in brown ink.
Bound in 17th-century vellum.
In a tray case, 26 cm.
Signatures of C. Bruscoli (dated Florence 1935) and G[iuseppe] Martini.
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Poetry

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095768620203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:45615224

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3684076

Holding Institution:

Harvard University