University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 546

Metadata

DS ID:

DS16797

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 546

Title:

Principii di canti, sentenze, similitudini, descrizioni ed altri passi /

Works

Author:

Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533

Ludovico Ariosto WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1575

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Text in Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 190 leaves : paper ; 190 x 132 mm, bound to 196 x 142 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bernays, Michael, 1834-1897

Michael Bernays WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from heading on fol. 1r.
Collation: Paper, i + 190 + i; foliated in 20th-century pencil every 5 leaves.
Layout: Written in approximately 30-35 long lines per page.
Script: Written in italic script in a single hand.
Binding: 19th-century half pigskin with machine marbled paper over boards; 4 raised bands on spine; green morocco spine label with title lettered in gold: "Ariosto / Principii / di canti."
Origin: Italy; late 16th-century based on the script.
Former shelfmark: Unidentified 19th-century former owner, Nr. 690c.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, 856.2 Ar34g.
Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms546.
From the library of Michael Bernays, a professor of history at the University of Munich in the 19th century (his bookplate on front pastedown). Forms part of the Emil B. Hirsch-Bernays Library, given to the University of Chicago by Julius Rosenwald.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Poetry

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14109485

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago