Details

Subjects:

Frederick William I, King of Prussia, 1688-1740.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian poetry.
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748.
Polish Succession, War of, 1733-1738.
Italy -- History -- 1559-1789.
Italy.
History.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian (f. 1r-26r) and Latin (f. 27r-104v).

Summary:

Collection of 18th-century Latin and Italian verse. 2 long works concern the War of Polish Succession (f. 1r-19v, 26r) and the War of Austrian Succession (f. 30r-104v), with a short poem possibly on the 1740 funeral of Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (f. 20r-24r) and an epistle in verse to an aristocratic patron, Donato de Silva, written on a larger bifolium, tipped in and folded (f. 27r-28v).

Contents:

1. f.1r-19v: Poema sopra le guerre dall'anno 1733 a tutto 1746.
2. f.20r-24r: I funerali del Re di Prussia [Friedrich Wilhelm I, 1740?] ideati dalla fantasia di Servio Senna.
3. f. 26r: [Conclusion of Poema sopra le guerre dall'anno 1733 a tutto 1746, stanzas 213-216]
4. f.27r-27v: Illustrissimo Domino Comiti Donato de Silva inter ceteros benefactori maximo epistola.
5. f.30r-104v: Belli Italici et praeclariorum eius gestorum compendiosa descriptio.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from title page of first work (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 104; [1-104], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Works written in various verse formats; predominant work frame-ruled in lead (f. 30r-104v).
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch), gilt spine with worm damage.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch) after 1746.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 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. 131 (Ms. Italian 188).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 417

Contributor:

Senna, Servio.
Silva, Donato de, 18th century, addressee.

OCLC:

63613704