Details

Subjects:

Bible. Genesis -- Paraphrases, Italian.
Bible. Genesis.
Italian literature -- Early works to 1800.
Italian poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Italian poetry.
Italian literature.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Poetical paraphrase of Genesis by Pietro Aretino.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch) and from description pasted inside upper cover; see also f. 1r, 2r and 3r.
Spine title: Prefatio nel Genesi.
Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch and from description pasted inside upper cover.
Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a 16th-century humanistic script by a single hand, allegedly in the autograph of Pietro Aretino (seller's description, inside upper cover).
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Some oxidation of ink in places, occasionally making the text hard to read.
Binding pulling loose in places; spine breaking between ff. 36-37. Cover splitting, cracking and peeling at spine and at edges.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Vicentius Marini (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Appears in Weiss cat. 1 (1926), no. 3.
Sold by Martin Breslauer, cat. 67 (1949), no. 7.

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 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 244.

OCLC:

155964097

Access Restriction:

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