[Trattato come si coltivino li giardini].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1959.

Physical Description:

35 leaves : paper ; 201 x 141 (162 x 113) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1675 and 1699]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Treatise on gardening.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Heading and incipit (f. 3r): Risposta di lettera ad un amico. Mi recerchi con gran premura la descrittione del mio giardinetto ...

Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 35 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-28, [iv], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; 168-202, second set of contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto; [1-35], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The second set of contemporary foliation indicates that this work was probably at one time bound into a larger volume.

Layout: Written in 23-26 long lines.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in a second hand.

Binding: Modern boards. Modern rebinding has eliminated the gutter on the verso side of each leaf and has thereby caused some text to be lost. Some stains and smudges.

Origin: Written in Italy in the late 17th century (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. 103 (Ms. Italian 53).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 294

OCLC:

155964289