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[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
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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