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Il Capitolo Fratesco.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Chiesa, Sebastiano, active 17th century.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Discipline.
- Catholic Church.
- Franciscans.
- Discipline.
- Franciscans--In literature.
- Franciscans--Humor.
- Italian literature.
- Italian poetry.
- Monasticism and religious orders--Humor.
- Monasticism and religious orders.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- poems
- satires (literary genre)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Andrea Imperiale Lercari of Genoa (label, f. 1r).
- Accessioned, 1960.
- Physical Description:
- 238 leaves : paper ; 287 x 197 mm bound to 309 x 212 mm
- Other Title:
- Al luogo del capitolo assegnato arrivano i vocali à schere à schere si grida, e romoreggia in ogni lato.
- Del poetico genio altri la vena cò Liquor d' Ippocrene e di Permesso.
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1600 and 1699]
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Poem satirizing the monks of the Franciscan order, to which the writer appears to have belonged. Written in 14 cantos of 382 8-line stanzas. The text in this manuscript appears to be incomplete. At the end of Canto 14 (f. 228r) there are indications that a Canto 15 was to have followed. Other known copies of this poem consist of 16 cantos in all.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- No indication of author. In other known copies of this poem the work is attributed to a Sebastiano Chiesa (pseudonym: Tisabesano Sechia).
- Incipit (f. 3r): Canto primo. / Argomento. / Al luogo del capitolo assegnato / arrivano i vocali à schiere à schiere / si grida, e romoreggia in ogni lato / ... (This does not include the preface "Al lettore" on f. 2r-v.).
- Incipit of first stanza in Canto primo: Del poetico genio altri la vena / cò Liquor d' Ippocrene, e di Permesso / ...
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 238 + ii (modern paper); [1-238]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in various italic and cursive scripts by at least three different hands.
- Binding: Modern boards. Cover pulling away at upper hinge, tearing f. 1 in the process. Various stains. Edges of many leaves worn and fraying.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Short dealer's description in English pasted to title page (f. 1r).
- Another copy or version of this poem is in Ms. Codex 347, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
- 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. 113 (Ms. Italian 103).
- Backer, Augustin de. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouv. éd. par Carlos Sommervogel (Bruxelles: O. Schepens; Paris: A. Picard, 1890-1932 [Louvain: Editions de la Bibiothèque S.J., Collège Philosophique et Théologique, 1960]), II, 1124-1125. Describes a ms. of this text under the title "Il capitolo fratesco; poema di Tisabesano Sechia," with reference to mss. in London, Paris and Forli.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 346
- OCLC:
- 155964446
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