Details

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 16th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 16th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of poems, dedicated to Margaret (Margherita) of Austria. Also contains dedications to Pietro Lippo and Hettore Piscicello (f. 1v, 3r), Galatheo's patrons.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, i + 30 + i; 1-30; later foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script, possibly in the hand of the author. After the end of the text there is one line of Latin in a later hand (f. 30r). There is also a note in Italian on the front flyleaf verso in a much later hand.
Decoration: Illuminated crest and coat of arms on title page (f. 1r).
Binding: Modern vellum. Some of the ink is flaked off and faded. There is some worm hole damage. On some leaves the trimming has cut away the edge of the text. Various smudges and stains. There are traces of gilding on the edges of the leaves.
Origin: Written in Rome, 15 April 1553 (f. 2v, 7r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by C. E. Brulot, cat. 277 (1951), no. 6.

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. 94 (Ms. Italian 10).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 250

Contributor:

Margaret, of Austria, Duchess of Parma, 1522-1586, dedicatee.
Lippo, Pietro, dedicatee.
Piscicello, Hettore, dedicatee.

OCLC:

155964175