Contra Leptine[m].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Demosthenes.

Standardized Title:

Adversus Leptinem. Italian

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Subjects (All):

Classical literature.

Greek literature.

Oratory, Ancient.

Genre:

Codices.

Orations.

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 1952.

Physical Description:

22 leaves : paper ; 335 x 230 (287 x 190) mm bound to 342 x 235 mm

Other Title:

Io ho presso questo carico di parlar.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1525 and 1575]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Text of Demosthenes' speech Against Leptines, translated into Italian.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption title (f. 1r): Demosthene Contra Leptine[m].

Spine title: Oratione di Demostene m.s.

Incipit (f. 1r): Io ho presso questo carico di parlar ...

Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 21; [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in italic script by a single hand.

Decoration: Colored design, possibly a coat of arms, on center of upper cover.

Binding: Contemporary parchment. Cover boards warped. Parchment cracked, split and peeling away from cover boards. Cover badly stained. Spine tight. A few stains on some leaves. Back pastedown has come completely loose from the inside lower cover.

Origin: Written in Italy in the middle of the 16th-century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Ms. leaf laid in, with quotations from an early printed version of Demosthenes in Italian, along with a few notes. On file in the Library.

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. 115 (Ms. Italian 109).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 351

OCLC:

155964455