Rime di Timaute Frascerepnico in vita, e in morte di Elisa.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Frascerepnico, Timaute.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

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

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

• Accessioned, 1959.

Physical Description:

62 leaves : paper ; 239 x 179 (182 x 125) mm bound to 246 x 183 mm

Production:

[Italy], [1600?]

Other Title:

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

Language Note:

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.

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