Satire / del K: N: Dot[t]i bresciano.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Dotti, Bartolomeo, 1648-1713.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Satire.

Italian poetry--17th century.

Italian poetry.

Italian poetry--18th century.

Genre:

Satire.

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

satires (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1966.

Physical Description:

138 leaves : paper ; 233 x 168 (176 x 60) mm bound to 244 x 180 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1750-1799]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Contains 24 satires and 13 sonnets, 2 satires and 10 sonnets marked "inedite" by a former owner (p. 269-270). Dotti's Rime were published in 1689 and his Satire in 1757, 1790, and 1807; no attempt has been made to ascertain whether the supposedly unpublished poems are actually "inedite," or are known in other mss.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. iii), decorated with pen-and-ink title border.

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 138 + i (contemporary paper); [iv] 1-56, 61-270, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Italy, possibly in the second half of the 18th century.

See also UPenn Ms. Codex 458 and Ms. Codex 459.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 6 (Ms. Italian 223).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 448

OCLC:

155969460