[Two works of erotica].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Erotica.
• Italian literature--18th century.
• Italian literature.
• Monasticism and religious orders for women.
• Monasticism and religious orders for women--In literarature.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• erotica
• Manuscripts, Italian.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.

Physical Description:

88 leaves : paper ; 231 x 184 (191 x 130) mm bound to 243 x 195 mm

Other Title:

• Lettera di una Monaca a sua Nipote nella quale dipinge la vita monastica, ed esorta la medesima a volerla abbracciare se le pare ai suoi desideri conveniente.
• Quantunque il manifestar l'interna direzione delle Monache sia una solenne trasgressione dell'Istituto che professiamo.
• Oh che bel Pellegrino! mi viene voglia di chiamarlo.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Two works of erotica. One in the form of a letter from a nun to her niece (f. 2r-25r); the other in the form of ten dialogues (f. 26r-87v). The dialogues in the second section are titled "Finistra prima ( -decima)." Each one also has a short heading indicating the speakers.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Heading and incipit of first work (f. 2r): Lettera di una monaca a sua Nipote nella quale dipinge la vita monastica ed esorta la medesima a volerla abbracciare se le pare a suoi desideri conveniente. Quantunque il manifestar l'interna direzione delle Monache sia una solenne trasgressione dell'Istituto che professiamo ...
• No overall heading for the dialogues. Incipit of first dialogue (f. 26r): Oh che bel Pellegrino! mi viene voglia di chiamarlo ...
• Foliation: Paper, 88; [1-88]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. A folio has been partially cut out between f. 25-26 and was not counted in the numbering; a large stub remains. A folio also appears to have been torn out after f. 88.
• Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
• Binding: Contemporary boards. Cover worn at edges and peeling at spine. A few smudges and stains.
• Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th 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), pp. 107-108 (Ms. Italian 68).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 310

OCLC:

155964332