University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 259

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1471

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 259

Title:

Poetical miscellany.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1600?]

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 85 leaves : paper ; 211 x 153 (225 x 205) mm bound to 222 x 161 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Generally in good condition. Cover wearing and splitting at hinges. Some evidence of worm damage, especially on inside lower cover.
Ms. codex.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 85 + i (contemporary paper); [1-85]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 14 lines of verse.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary Italian gilt morocco with gauffered page edges. Lower cover has a medallion with a red fleur-de-lis design. Upper cover medallion also had a design but it has largely been worn away; it appears to have included an animal and a book.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch). Notes of Neda Westlake (on file in Library) suggest ca. 1580.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.
Formerly owned by Henry Chandon de Briailles (bookplates, inside upper cover).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

poems

Italian literature

Sixteenth century

Italian poetry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808743503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3v40k062/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania