Comitis Gabutii de Montealbodio juveniles & amatoriae epistolae.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Gabuzzi, conte.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Early works to 1800.

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Ancona (Italy : Province)--History.

Ancona (Italy : Province).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Olschki catalog 91 (1971), no. 13.

Physical Description:

8 leaves : paper ; 220 x 145 (165) mm bound to 220 x 150 mm

Place of Publication:

[Montalboddo?], [1500-1525].

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Contains six romantic letters from Conte Gabuzzi of Montalboddo in hexameter verse, for the bishop Zacharias Contugius of Assisi. Letters 1, 2, and 4 are addressed to Philomena, 3 is a response from Philomena, 5 is to Constantie Ravennati, and 6 is titled Laudatiae Tholentinati.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, 8; [1-8]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 20-22 long lines.

Script: Written in an italic cursive hand, probably the same hand as in UPenn Ms. Codex 1250.

Binding: Marbled paper cover (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Montalboddo[?] in the first quarter of the 16th 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), Supplement A (5), The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 99 (Ms. Lea 582b).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1251

OCLC:

244793968