Details

Other Title:

Figlivol di Giove, O Apolline, che col tuo ardor fecondo.

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Anonymous original poem in the style of Sappho. Purported to be an Italian translation of a work by Sappho.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. i).
Sappho is the purported author. No indication of the real author.
Incipit: Figlivol di Giove, O Apolline, / Che col tuo ardor fecondo... (p. 5).
Pagination: Paper, ii (contemporary paper) + 44 + ii (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-23, [24-86]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a single calligraphical hand.
Binding: Contemporary calf. Cover boards very slightly warped and worn. Cover and some leaves show stains possibly due to water or mildew damage.
Origin: Written in Italy[?] in the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Brief description from unidentified bookseller on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1960.

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. 116 (Ms. Italian 118).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 360

Contributor:

Sappho.

OCLC:

155964486