Details

Subjects:

Satire.
Italian poetry -- 17th century.
Italian poetry.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Contains 24 satires and 13 sonnets, 2 satires and 10 sonnets marked "inedite" by a former owner (p. 269-270). Dotti's Rime were published in 1689 and his Satire in 1757, 1790, and 1807; no attempt has been made to ascertain whether the supposedly unpublished poems are actually "inedite," or are known in other mss.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. iii), decorated with pen-and-ink title border.
Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 138 + i (contemporary paper); [iv] 1-56, 61-270, [ii]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly in the second half of the 18th century.
See also UPenn Ms. Codex 458 and Ms. Codex 459.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1966.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 6 (Ms. Italian 223).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 448

OCLC:

155969460