Details

Subjects:

Italian language -- Dialects -- Early works to 1800.
Italian language -- Dialects -- Italy -- Florence.
Italian language -- Dialects.
Italy -- Florence.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Contains only those passages of the Pataffio which relate to A.M. Salvini's commentary. Three preliminary folios are covered with notes by earlier owners.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Incipit: Vocaboli fiorentini distinti in dieci capitoli chiamato Pataffio, capitolo primo. Squasimoddeo, introque e affusone / ne hai ne hai, pilorcio, e con mattana ... (f. 2r).
Title from title page (f. 1r)
Foliation: Paper, i + 108 + i; [ii, 1-106]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with notes on front endleaves in additional hands.
Binding: 19th-century leather.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Thomas Crofts (note, f. ii verso); Henry J. Todd, 1802 (notes and initials, f. ii verso); Roger Wilbraham, (notes, f. i verso-ii recto, f. 1r); George Wilbraham (bookplate, inside upper cover); and Richard C. Jackson (bookplate, front flyleaf recto).
Purchased, 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. 125 (Ms. Italian 165).

Publications about:

On the text and two other mss. see Antonio Padula, Brunetto Latini e il Pataffio, Milan, 1921.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 399

Contributor:

Salvini, Anton Maria, 1653-1729.

OCLC:

155968413