University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 279

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1482

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 279

Title:

Crestomazia di poeti italiani del Cinquecento.

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[1550?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 30 leaves : paper ; 203 x 147 (153 x 88) mm bound to 208 x 149 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1550 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: 18th-century[?] half-leather, with marbled paper over boards. Spine label has a gold crown with the letters "F. S.", probably indicating Libreria F. Strozzi. Some leaves stained. A few leaves show signs of repairs to the corners. Cover wearing at edges; wearing and beginning to split at outside hinges.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Spine title: Bembo. Sonetti e poesie di vari autori.
Pagination: Paper, i (18th-century[?] paper) + 30 + i (18th-century[?] paper); 1-15, 15-59; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand. The few corrections (e.g., p. 4) might be in the same hand or a similar second hand.
Purchased, 1960.
Formerly owned by Libreria Strozzi (gilt stamp, spine).

Keyword:

sonnets

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

anthologies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Italian literature

Sixteenth century

Italian poetry

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915808913503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p33k49/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania