Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1557.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cnipius, Johannes, -1586

Contributor:

Steitz, Georg Eduard, 1810-1879, former owner.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Saxo, Andreas.

Horace--Influence.

Horace.

Genre:

poems

satires (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Georg Eduard Steitz (note dated 1860 in file).

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1967.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf)

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large). Box 1 Folder 23

Place of Publication:

1557.

Language Note:

In Latin, with a few words in Greek.

Biography/History:

Poet, teacher, and printer of Frankfurt am Main.

Summary:

Three poems in black and red ink in an italic hand (likely that of Johannes Cnipius) on a paper bifolium, in which Cnipius mocks Andreas Saxo. The first poem, beginning Odi sacrilegam perversum rellicuisse, seems to be mostly the work of Saxo, in red ink, with additions by Cnipius in black ink. The second poem, which Cnipius titles Specimen tou barbarismou Andreae Saxonis, dated 1557, is similarly a mix of words from Saxo and Cnipius in red and black. The third poem, titled Ode lyrica in Andream Saxonem, is by Cnipius, in black with red initials, and is a satire using the Alcaic meter of Horace's Ode 1.38. The end of the first and third poems are signed I.C.A. for Iohannes Cnipius Andronicus.

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 (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 16 (Ms. Latin 237).

OCLC:

227366923