[Collection of poems].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Ranuccio, II Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, 1630-1694, dedicatee.

Giorgini, Marolino, dedicatee.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595--Parodies, imitations, etc.

Tasso, Torquato.

Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.

Italian literature--17th century.

Italian literature.

Italian poetry--17th century.

Italian poetry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Parodies, imitations, etc.

Parodies (Literature)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Leo S. Olschki (Florence), 1955.

Physical Description:

100 leaves : paper ; 199 x 130 mm bound to 208 x 144 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1680?]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of poems of various types, possibly though not certainly by one author. Contains amorous as well as spiritual poems; madrigals are interspersed towards the end. One poem is identified as an imitation of Tasso (f. 12r); one is addressed to Marolino Giorgini (f. 17v), another to Ranuccio Farnese (f. 29r). Much oxidation and some text trimmed.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger; rubbed and virtually illegible writing on spine.

Collation: Paper, i + 100 + i; 1-25⁴, gatherings signed 1-24, upper left first recto; 1-100, contemporary foliation with arabic numerals in ink, upper right recto.

Script: Written in cursive script, mostly by a single hand.

Binding: Parchment, contemporary or slightly later. Writing on the inside of the parchment cover sheet, likely a discarded document, visible through the outside of the front and back covers.

Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1680 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 95 (Ms. Italian 15).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 257

OCLC:

155964201