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Canzoni per musica cavate da diverse opere et autore per suo diporto / da Archilante Fosconi Bonsei.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1614
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Fosconi, Archilante.
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italian poetry--17th century.
- Italian poetry.
- Songs, Italian--17th century.
- Songs, Italian.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- poems
- songs (musical compositions)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Songs, Italian.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Antonio Francesco Ghiselli, canon of San Petronio, Bologna (bookplate inside upper cover).
- Purchased as part of the Ghiselli collection by Count Vincenzo Ranuzzi, his ms. 96, owned by subsequent generations of the Ranuzzi family (Bologna).
- Sold as part of the Ranuzzi collection to English booksellers John Payne and Henry Foss, 1847.
- Sold by John Payne as part of a large section of the Ranuzzi collection to Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 12614 (remnant of label on spine).
- Sold by Alastor Rare Books (Lymington, England), cat. 20 (2011), no. 11.
- Physical Description:
- 364 leaves : paper ; 220 x 154 mm bound to 228 x 172 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Bologna], [between 1675 and 1699?]
- Language Note:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Collection of over 800 canzoni lyrics grouped by themes such as suffering, love, honor, beauty, and spirit.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from early added title on second flyleaf.
- Collation: Paper, ii + 364; 1-3⁸ 4-7⁴ 8-12⁸ 13⁶ 14² 15-17⁸ 18⁴ 19² 20⁸ 21² 22⁸ 23⁶ 24² 25⁸ 26⁶ 27⁸ 28⁶ 29-30⁸ 31⁴ 32⁸ 33⁶ 34-35⁸ 36² 37⁸ 38⁶ 39² 40-41⁸ 42⁶ 43⁸ 44² 45⁶ 46-51⁸ 52⁶ 53⁸ 54⁴ 55-56⁸ 57-58²; gatherings signed A-A5, B-B2, C-C7, D-D5, E-E2, F-F3, G, H, J-J2, L-L3, M-M2, N-N3, O-O3, P-P3, Q-Q2, R, S-S7, T-T2, V-V3, Z; [1-364], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords on most leaves, lower left verso.
- Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand; title added in calligraphic script (second flyleaf).
- Watermark: Medici coat of arms topped with crossed keys and crown.
- Binding: Late 17th- or early 18th-century paper boards; title Canzoni per musica and number 96 on spine in ink; number 121 in ink on label on upper cover.
- Origin: Probably written in Bologna in the late 17th century (Alastor).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1614
- OCLC:
- 772920866
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