La Faoniade: Inni ed Odi di Saffo, Poetessa di Mitilene. Traduzione dal Greco.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Sappho.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Italian literature--18th century.
• Italian literature.
• Italian poetry--18th century.
• Italian poetry.

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

• Purchased, 1960.

Physical Description:

48 leaves : paper ; 225 x 165 (165 x 119) mm bound to 231 x 171 mm

Other Title:

Figlivol di Giove, O Apolline, che col tuo ardor fecondo.

Place of Publication:

[Italy?], [between 1700 and 1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Anonymous original poem in the style of Sappho. Purported to be an Italian translation of a work by Sappho.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (p. i).
• Sappho is the purported author. No indication of the real author.
• Incipit: Figlivol di Giove, O Apolline, / Che col tuo ardor fecondo... (p. 5).
• Pagination: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 44 + ii (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-23, [24-86]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
• Script: Written in a single calligraphical hand.
• Binding: Contemporary calf. Cover boards very slightly warped and worn. Cover and some leaves show stains possibly due to water or mildew damage.
• Origin: Written in Italy[?] in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
• Brief description from unidentified bookseller 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. 116 (Ms. Italian 118).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 360

OCLC:

155964486