University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 249

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1464

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 249

Title:

Carmine alla Beata Vergine Maria.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 7 leaves : paper ; 264 x 206 mm bound to 266 x 201 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Cover boards slightly warped. Some smudges and stains, possibly some water damage. No left margin on the versos; the leaves appear to have been trimmed after the text was written. Leaves originally folded in half.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: O gloriosa vergene Maria / Regina dellu celu et de omne gente / Prestame gratia nella mente mea / Che io te pocza ludare digniamente / Tu che sei Mater del filiolu de deu.... (f. 1r).
Explicit: Et ihesu christu volliate pregare / Che se vollia dignare per vostro amore[?] / De perdonareme ca so peccatore. De[o] gratias. (f. 7v).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 7 + i (modern paper); [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Origin: Written in southern[?] Italy in the 15th century. The orthography and the many endings in -u suggest this.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern vellum over boards.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 55-60 lines.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., 1950.

Keyword:

Christian poetry

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Poetry

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Early works

Italian poetry

Religious poetry, Italian

Devotional literature

Fifteenth century

To 1500

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808583503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p35f9f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania