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De la rapina di Proserpina.

Author/Creator:
Claudianus, Claudius.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
72 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 148 (146 x 90) mm bound to 218 x 149 mm
Production:
[Lombardy?], [before 1546]
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Standardized Title:
De raptu Proserpinae. Italian.
Other Title:
Rapina di Proserpina.
Ira, l'orgoglio, et i destrieri ardenti del tiranno infernal rapace; e il carro.
Onde già di fumoso halito oscuro / Il ciel si sparse, e le superne stelle.
Subjects:
Classical literature -- Early works to 1800.
Latin literature -- Early works to 1800.
Persephone (Greek deity) -- In literature.
Latin literature.
Classical literature.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
The poem De raptu Proserpinae by Claudian, in an Italian translation by Livio Sanuto.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Spine title: La rapina di Proserpina.
Heading and incipit of book I (f. 1r): L'ira, l'orgoglio, et i destrieri ardenti del tiranno infernal rapace; e il carro. Onde già di fumoso halito oscuro / Il ciel si sparse, e le superne stelle / ...
Inscription at end (f. 68v): 19 ienno [i.e., ianuario?] 1546 Alexandro[?]. Fascoli[?]. The manuscript appears to be 16th century in date, and the inscription on f. 68v indicates that it must have been written before 1546.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 72 + iii (modern paper); [ii], [1-68], [ii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except for the inscription at the end (f. 68v).
Decoration: Illuminated initials with foliate ornamentation (f. 1r, 17v, 42r).
Binding: Modern boards. Previously bound in 18th-century gilt leather; rebound at some date after Zacour-Hirsch was compiled in 1965.
Origin: Written in Lombardy[?] before 1546 (f. 68v, Zacour-Hirsch).
Edges of book block gilded.
Some stains. Ink on some folios worn and rubbed.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by J. J. Middleton (bookplate, inside upper cover); willed by him to Henry Middleton of South Carolina, 1849 (inscription on bookplate, inside upper cover).
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. 104 (Ms. Italian 61).
Publications about:
Published as early as 1551. On file in the Library is a letter to Dr. William H. Hart of Ambler, PA, from George Maurice Abbot, Librarian and treasurer of the Library Company of Philadelphia; it is dated 21 January 1927 and concerns a search for printed copies of this text. The letter indicates that a printed copy on vellum dated 1551 has been located at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France, and another dated 1553 at the British Museum.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 303
Contributor:
Sanuto, Livio, 1520-1576, translator.
Middleton, J. J., former owner.
Middleton, Henry, former owner.
OCLC:
155964299