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Other Title:

Lettera di una Monaca a sua Nipote nella quale dipinge la vita monastica, ed esorta la medesima a volerla abbracciare se le pare ai suoi desideri conveniente.
Quantunque il manifestar l'interna direzione delle Monache sia una solenne trasgressione dell'Istituto che professiamo.
Oh che bel Pellegrino! mi viene voglia di chiamarlo.

Subjects:

Erotica.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian literature.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- In literarature.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Erotica.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Two works of erotica. One in the form of a letter from a nun to her niece (f. 2r-25r); the other in the form of ten dialogues (f. 26r-87v). The dialogues in the second section are titled "Finistra prima ( -decima)." Each one also has a short heading indicating the speakers.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Heading and incipit of first work (f. 2r): Lettera di una monaca a sua Nipote nella quale dipinge la vita monastica ed esorta la medesima a volerla abbracciare se le pare a suoi desideri conveniente. Quantunque il manifestar l'interna direzione delle Monache sia una solenne trasgressione dell'Istituto che professiamo ...
No overall heading for the dialogues. Incipit of first dialogue (f. 26r): Oh che bel Pellegrino! mi viene voglia di chiamarlo ...
Foliation: Paper, 88; [1-88]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. A folio has been partially cut out between f. 25-26 and was not counted in the numbering; a large stub remains. A folio also appears to have been torn out after f. 88.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary boards. Cover worn at edges and peeling at spine. A few smudges and stains.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.

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), pp. 107-108 (Ms. Italian 68).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 310

OCLC:

155964332