The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 884

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9900

Shelfmark:

mssHM 884

Title:

Discorso della virtù femminile

Author:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

Torquato Tasso WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595

Torquato Tasso WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1585 and 1599

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 6 : paper ; 210 x 290 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bixby, William K. 1857-1931

William Keeney Bixby WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
Support: Paper.
Layout: 3 successive bifolia and 1 leaf added at a later date, bound backwards so that the verso precedes the recto. 26-28 long lines; text placed so as to leave margin only on the left. The first 6 leaves are autograph, in a hurried cursive; f. 7r-v, s. XVIII.
Watermark(s): Angel not in Briquet.
Assigned Date: s. XVIex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in the hand of the author, Torquato Tasso. This manuscript was noticed in the 1856 Sotheby sale by A. Solerti, Appendice alle opere in prosa di Torquato Tasso (Florence 1892) 61-67, who implied that it might be the one mentioned in a letter from Ludovico Muratori to Apostolo Zeno, 28 March 1735 (that manuscript, however, now identified as Modena, Biblioteca Universitaria Estense...

Keyword:

Poems

Bookplates

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manuscripts (documents)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862132

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52303/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens