[Trattato come si coltivino li giardini].
- Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1675 and 1699]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
35 leaves : paper ; 201 x 141 (162 x 113) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3f87f - Status/Location:
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- Subjects:
- Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
Gardening. - Form/Genre:
- Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European. - Language:
- Italian.
- Summary:
- Treatise on gardening.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Heading and incipit (f. 3r): Risposta di lettera ad un amico. Mi recerchi con gran premura la descrittione del mio giardinetto ...
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 35 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-28, [iv], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; 168-202, second set of contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto; [1-35], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The second set of contemporary foliation indicates that this work was probably at one time bound into a larger volume.
Layout: Written in 23-26 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in a second hand.
Binding: Modern boards. Modern rebinding has eliminated the gutter on the verso side of each leaf and has thereby caused some text to be lost. Some stains and smudges.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch). - 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. 103 (Ms. Italian 53).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 294
- OCLC:
- 155964289