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Other Title:

All'Italia nell'1690.
Per l'elettione dell'Duca di Sassonia all corona di Polonia.
Nella sorpresa della gran fortezza di Buda rivolta à Turchi.

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 17th century.
Italian literature.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian poetry -- 17th century.
Italian poetry.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.

Local subjects:

Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721. (search)
Eugene, of Savoy, Prince of Savoy, 1663-1736. (search)
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. (search)
Philip V, King of Spain, 1683-1746. (search)

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Anthologies.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of poetry consisting mostly, if not entirely, of sonnets. Some of the sonnets are attributed to Michel' Brugueres and various other authors. There are also many unattributed sonnets, including "All' Italia nell'1690" (p. 17), "Per l'elettione dell'Duca di Sassonia alla corona di Polonia" (p. 22), "Nella sorpresa della gran fortezza di Buda rivolta à Turchi ..." (p. 24), and several poems relating to Louis XIV of France, Prince Eugene, Philip V of Spain, Pope Clement XI, etc. In general, most of the poems seem to be concerned with prominent persons and important events of the time.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from later pencilled note inside upper cover.
Pagination: Paper, 46; [ii, 1-2], 3-71, [72-90]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by multiple hands.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Various stains and smudges. One quire very loose; one bifolium completely detached.
Origin: Written in Italy in the early 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1959.

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. 101 (Ms. Italian 43).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 285

Contributor:

Brugueres, Michel'.

OCLC:

155964264