Details

Other Title:

Lume del ciel che l'universo vedi.

Subjects:

Italian literature -- 16th century.
Italian literature.
Italian poetry -- 16th century.
Italian poetry.
Perugia (Italy) -- History.
Perugia (Italy) -- Poetry.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Biography/History:

Lorenzo Spirito (real name, Lorenzo Gualtieri) was secretary of Niccolo Piccinino (contemporary note, front flyleaf i recto).

Summary:

Poem in terzine, in 16 canti.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading (f. 1r).
Incipit: Lume del ciel che l'universo vedi, / robando sempre lo stellato chiostro / ... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 80 + i (contemporary paper); 1-80; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 18 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, in the hand of Carlo Lippi (f. 75v).
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of leather ties; spine reads Lorenzo Spirito.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Renzo Rizzi (Bollettino no. 5, item 46), 1956.

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. 96 (Ms. Italian 21).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 263

Contributor:

Lippi, Carlo, scribe.

OCLC:

155964212