Details

Other Title:

Nesun se pote felice chiamare.

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 16th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 16th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Poetic work in 91 eight-line stanzas. Mentioned in the poems are Sforza, Galeazo, Contarini, Gonzaga, Malatesta, Spinola, Brandolini, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from f. 1r.
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 24 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁶ 2⁸; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: In a single informal cursive hand.
Binding: Modern quarter vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy between 1534 (Kraus) and 1550.
Incipit (f. 2r): Nesun se pote felice chiamare ...
Many stains and smudges. Edges of leaves worn and frayed.
Bookseller's description (H. P. Kraus) on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the collection of Giuseppe Martini, ca. 1948.
Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 175.
Purchased from Kraus, 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 363).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 363

Contributor:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155964499