University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 838

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1683

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 838

Title:

Erotopaignion /

Author:

Angeriano, Girolamo, active 16th century

Girolamo Angeriano WIKIDATA

Place:

Naples

Naples TGN

Date:

[1510?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with title and final words in Greek and notes inside the covers in Greek and Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 35 leaves : paper ; 194 x 146 (148 x 85) mm bound to 196 x 150 mm

Note:

Incipit: Libellus ad lectorem. Doctrinam si forte cupis, si forte lepores/Pierios, Domini ne lege scripta mei...
Title and attribution from caption heading (f. 1r).
Alternate title represents the spelling used for some published versions of Angeriano's work.
Dedicated to Joannes Jacobus de Castillione, archbishop of Bari, (f. 1r).
Explicit: Non hic corpus adest, non hic cinis ater, at una/flamma calens, cremat haec flamma. Viator abi. Telos est to.
Foliation: Paper, 35; [1-35]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Possibly written in Naples, ca. 1510 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Script: Written in one humanistic hand.
Decoration: Initials of some poems have been traced over in red.
Binding: Original cardboard wrapper (Zacour-Hirsch).
Layout: Written in 30-32 long lines.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931779813503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p37z3z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania