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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1471

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 259

Title:

Poetical miscellany

Poetry

Place:

Italy

TGN

Date:

1600?

seventeenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Italian

WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper

AAT

Physical Description:

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

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
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.
Generally in good condition. Cover wearing and splitting at hinges. Some evidence of worm damage, especially on inside lower cover.
Formerly owned by Henry Chandon de Briailles (bookplates, inside upper cover).
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Italian literature

Italian poetry

Sixteenth century

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915808743503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3v40k062/manifest