Details

Other Title:

Poesie libere

Subjects:

Italian poetry -- 16th century.
Italian poetry.
Satire.

Form/Genre:

Satire.
Codices.
Anthologies.
Poems.
Satires (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Anthology of satirical poems by Francesco Berni, Andrea Lori, Francesco Maria Molza, and others unidentified, some attributed to Mauro Mattei of Florence (cf. penciled note on flyleaf), altogether 32 poems. Also includes a table of contents (f. iii recto-iv recto).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 191 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-52, [i], 53-106, [i], 107-185; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: 18th-century[?] half vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

"All'illustre signore" [rest undeciphered] in more or less contemporary hand, and later notation "No. 405 La" (f. ii recto).
Purchased by H. P. Kraus from the collection of Giuseppe Martini, ca. 1948.
Appears in Kraus's list 189 (1956), no. 21.
Purchased, 1962.

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. 130 (Ms. Italian 181).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 412

Contributor:

Berni, Francesco, 1497 or 1498-1535.
Lori, Andrea, approximately 1520-1579.
Mattei, Mauro.
Molza, Francesco Maria, 1489-1544.
Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155968692