Rime di Tonello.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Quinziano, Giulio.

Contributor:

• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Italian literature--16th century.
• Italian literature.
• Italian literature--17th century.
• Italian poetry--16th century.
• Italian poetry.
• Italian poetry--17th century.

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

• Former owners include (details from notes of Angelina Feo Light): Jacopo Soranzo (1686-1761), Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1806) and Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).
• Sold by Martin Breslauer (London), 1947.

Physical Description:

134 leaves : paper ; 267 x 205 (148 x 116) mm bound to 275 x 212 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1675 and 1725]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Poems in the dialects of Bergamo and Brescia, attributed to Tonello (Giulio Quinziano?). Possibly a paraphrase of Petrarch.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption title (f. 1r). Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.
• Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 134 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-24, [i], 25-130, [i]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto. Leaf between f. 24-25 evidently skipped by accident when the folios were numbered. Other unnumbered leaves, at beginning and end, have no text.
• Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. Every page has an ink border and the caption "Rime di T." written above the poem. Text written only on the recto of each folio.
• Binding: Contemporary tooled red morocco with gold stamping. Edges of book block gilded and stamped with a vine-leaf design. Cover slightly cracked at spine, splitting at hinges. Paper damaged in places due to oxidation of ink.
• Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th or early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 93 (Ms. Italian 7).
• Mitchell, J. B. "Trevisan and Soranzo ..." Bodleian Library Record, vol. VIII, No. 3 (February 1969), pp. 125-135, contains information relevant to the provenance of this item.
• Rosa, Gabriele. Dialetti, costume e tradizione delle provincie di Bergamo e di Brescia (Bergamo: Mazzoleni, 1855). Rosa says that there is a manuscript in the library of Bergamo of poems by Giulio Quinziano under the name of Tonello, which seems to be of the latter part of the 16th century. These poems are written in the dialect of Bergamo and Brescia and a mixture of the two. Rosa quotes some verses identical with some of those in this manuscript.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 247

OCLC:

155964168