Details

Other Title:

Erotopaegnion

Subjects:

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800.
Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin, with title and final words in Greek and notes inside the covers in Greek and Italian.

Summary:

Collection of short Latin poems in elegiac couplets, many of which are addressed to "Caelia."

Notes:

Title and attribution from caption heading (f. 1r).
Alternate title represents the spelling used for some published versions of Angeriano's work.
Incipit: Libellus ad lectorem. Doctrinam si forte cupis, si forte lepores/Pierios, Domini ne lege scripta mei...
Explicit: Non hic corpus adest, non hic cinis ater, at una/flamma calens, cremat haec flamma. Viator abi. Telos est to.
Foliation: Paper, 35; [1-35]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 30-32 long lines.
Script: Written in one humanistic hand.
Decoration: Initials of some poems have been traced over in red.
Binding: Original cardboard wrapper (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Possibly written in Naples, ca. 1510 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Dedicated to Joannes Jacobus de Castillione, archbishop of Bari, (f. 1r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 9 (Ms. Latin 38).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 838

Contributor:

Castillione, Joannes Jacobus de, dedicatee.

OCLC:

188934534