Details

Other Title:

Scelta di canzoni

Subjects:

Folk songs, Italian.
Italian poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Italian poetry -- Italy -- Sicily.
Italian poetry.
Italy -- Sicily.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Anthologies.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of about 800 poems in Sicilian dialect by Antoni Vinizianu, Cesaru or Zesaru Gravina, Liuni Russelli [=Leone Rosselli?], Micheli Moraschinu, Giuseppi Durazzu, Jacupu Morellu, Gabrieli Ciceru or Cicero, Giuseppi Morettu, Vincenzu Giuffrè [=Gioffre?], Antoni Carvuni [or Carvoni, Carvini?], Giuseppi Galeanu, Andrá Rizzu, Gilormu La M'ana or Lamanna, Petru La Dunzella, Franciscu Gaita, and "di diversi." Names from table of contents (f. ii recto); alphabetical index of beginnings of verses at end of volume. According to the table of contents, numbered f. 137-146 are missing, containing the work Luntananza di Frà Don Cesaru Gravina.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 315; [iv], 1-136, 147-254, [lxvii], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [iv, 1-311]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Upper and lower pastedown have come loose. References in this record are to the contemporary foliation.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, with the exception of a few additions, (f. 253r-254r).
Decoration: Illuminated title with foliated design and illuminated initial (f. 1r).
Binding: Contemporary gilt morocco. Leather from upper and lower edges of spine missing.
Origin: Written in Sicily in the second half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 125 (Ms. Italian 162).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 396

OCLC:

155968348