Details

Other Title:

Chi vuol saper la mia amorosa vita / Scorra per poco queste brevi carte.

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of poems of various types by Timaute Frascerepnico, which Zacour-Hirsch suggests might be a pseudonym. Contains an index of first lines at the end (p. i).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (p. i).
Incipit of first poem (p. 1): Chi vuol saper la mia amorosa vita / Scorra per poco queste brevi carte / ...
Pagination: Paper, [ii], 1-120; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), ca. 1600.
Cover boards slightly warped. Cover stained and worn. Some evidence of worm damage.

Penn Provenance:

Accessioned, 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. 102 (Ms. Italian 51).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 292

OCLC:

155964285