Details

Standardized Title:

Penitential Psalms. Italian.

Subjects:

Friendship -- Early works to 1800.
Friendship.
Exile (Punishment) in literature.
Italian literature -- Early works to 1800.
Italian poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Italian poetry.
Italian literature.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
illuminations (painting)
Poetry.
Manuscripts, Italian -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

The Penitential Psalms, in terza rima. Also contains two other works: Mariotto Davanzati's Trattato dell'amicizia, in terza rima; and Boccaccio's Lettera consolitaria a Pino de Rossi, in which Boccaccio attempts to offer consolation to Pino de Rossi after his exile from Florence. Some staining and faded ink.

Contents:

1. f.1r-8v: Sette salmi penitentiziali, in terza rima (incipit: Signor nel tuo furor non mi riprehendere ... ).
2. f.9r-14r: Trattato dell'amicizia, in terza rima (incipit: Quel divo ingiegno qual per voi sinfuse ... ) / Mariotto Davanzati.
3. f.14v-36r: Lettera consolitaria a M. Pino de Rossi (incipit: Io extimo messer Pino che sia non solamente utile ma necessario ... ) / Giovanni Boccaccio.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Titles supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment, i (parchment pasted to modern paper) + i (parchment) + 40; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 24 long lines; ruled in drypoint and ink.
Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Historiated illuminated initial with King David and illuminated foliate border (f. 1r); illuminated initials throughout; red used for headings and initials.
Binding: 18th- or 19th-century velvet over boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1460 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Appears in H. P. Kraus's catalog 44 (1948), no. 38a.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Connecticut), 1961.
Gift of Richard W. Foster, 1961.

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. 117 (Ms. Italian 125).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 179-79 (cat. 49).

Cited as:

Sette salmi penitenziali (Ms. Codex 366). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Epistola consolatoria.
Davanzati, Mariotto.
Rossi, Pino de, active 1360, addressee.
Quel divo ingiegno qual per voi sinfuse.
Io extimo messer Pino che sia non solamente utile ma necessario.
Signor nel tuo furor non mi reprehendere.

OCLC:

155964505