Canzoni Siciliane raccolte da diversi autori / [Domnos Ēosephos Amarchēos].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner.

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.

Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910, former owner.

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--17th century.

Italian literature.

Italian literature--Italy--Sicily.

Italy--Sicily.

Italian poetry--17th century.

Italian poetry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

anthologies

poems

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Jacopo Soranzo (1686-1761); Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1806); Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover); Arthur John Butler (bookplate, recto of front flyleaf; Giuseppe Martini collection.

Purchased, 1960.

Physical Description:

178 leaves : paper ; 135 x 95 (109 x 85) mm bound to 143 x 107 mm

Production:

[Sicily], 1653.

Language Note:

Italian, in the Sicilian dialect.

Summary:

Anthology of Sicilian dialect poetry in ottava rima, extending to nearly 700 stanzas. Apparently compiled by Domnus Josephus Amarchius.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Appears to have been compiled by a Domnus Josephus Amarchius, who wrote his name and the date beneath the title, in Greek letters: [Domnos Ēosephos Amarchēos. Anno a partou ouēpgēnēs 1653]. Only the letters are Greek--the inscription is actually written in Latin, e.g.: "anno a partu virginis". Amarchius consistently uses Greek eta [ē] to represent Latin "i". Amarchius was probably a titled nobleman or a Benedictine monk.

Foliation: Paper, ii + 176 + ii; [i], 1-133, 133-174; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. The numbers at the upper center verso appear to be stanza numbers.

Script: Written in a single cursive hand, probably that of the compiler.

Binding: Venetian 18th-century parchment. Various stains and smudges.

Origin: Written in Sicily, 1653.

Brief description of the item, probably by an unidentified bookseller, on file in the Library. This description was the source of some descriptive information.

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 114).

Mitchell, J.B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." The Bodleian Library Record, vol. VIII, no. 3 (February 1969), p. 125-135. Discusses the provenance of this item.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 356

OCLC:

155964473