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Laudi spirituali.

Publication:
[Naples], [1639?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
122 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 130 x 70 mm bound to 136 x 78 mm + 2 notes
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Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Religious poetry, Italian -- 17th century.
Hymns, Italian.
Religious poetry, Italian.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Poems.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Volume of Italian religious verse, comprised of material from more than one source, including 29 irregularly numbered printed pages with manuscript paste-ins.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from upper cover and caption title (f. 11r).
Foliation: Paper, 121; [i], [1-121]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: First 5 folios written in a humanistic book script, with the remainder of the volume in various cursive scripts by many hands.
Decoration: Pasted-in woodcut of Virgin and Child, with imprint: In Napoli Per Lazaro Scoriggio. 1620 (f. 1r).
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Wormholes near spine and on pasted pages throughout.
Origin: Written in Naples, ca. 1639 (f. 2v).
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1973.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement B, The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 19 (Ms. Italian 264).
Printed parts of this volume may have originated in Lazaro Scoriggio's press, but only one collection of this type of poetry printed by him is listed in G.M. Monti, Bibliogr. della laude (Florence, 1925), p. 13, no. 48
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 485
OCLC:
155965078