Triumpho de la morte contra li magni [et] valenti homini de Italia : cum le additione de li capitani moderni : novamente composte [et] correcta la prima hystoria.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--16th century.

Italian literature.

Italian poetry--16th century.

Italian poetry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the collection of Giuseppe Martini, ca. 1948.

Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 175.

Purchased from Kraus, 1960.

Physical Description:

24 leaves : paper ; 222 x 154 (148 x 90) mm bound to 226 x 157 mm

Other Title:

Nesun se pote felice chiamare.

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1534-1550]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Poetic work in 91 eight-line stanzas. Mentioned in the poems are Sforza, Galeazo, Contarini, Gonzaga, Malatesta, Spinola, Brandolini, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from f. 1r.

Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 24 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁶ 2⁸; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Script: In a single informal cursive hand.

Binding: Modern quarter vellum.

Origin: Written in Italy between 1534 (Kraus) and 1550.

Incipit (f. 2r): Nesun se pote felice chiamare ...

Many stains and smudges. Edges of leaves worn and frayed.

Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) 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 363).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 363

OCLC:

155964499

Online:

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