Details

Subjects:

Latin letters, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800.
Italian letters -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing.
Italian letters.
Latin letters, Medieval and modern.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin and Italian, with a few words in Greek.

Summary:

A collection of 24 model letters in Latin, several dated 1598. These letters are numbered 1-26, with 11 and 19 missing. Later additions of 6 letters in Latin by Ricardus Hesius dated 1603 and 1604 at the end (f. 23v-29v), and 7 Italian letters copied in spaces between Latin letters, including 2 dated 1612 and a copy of a 1541 letter by Jacomo Bonfadio (f. 14v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 31; [1-31]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 29-30 long lines with vertical bounding lines in lead.
Script: Written in several cursive hands (one hand for the original 24 letters, f. 1r-23r; two hands for the Hesius letters, f. 23v-28r and 29r-29v; and one hand for the Italian letters, scattered from f. 12v to f. 31v).
Binding: Contemporary paper boards (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch) between 1598 (f. 6v, 7r, 11r, 16r, 21r, 22r) and 1612 (f. 12v, 19v).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Libreria Nironi & Prandi, 1953.

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. 16 (Ms. Latin 74).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 853

Contains:

Bonfadio, Jacopo, -1550.
Hesius, Ricardus.

OCLC:

155918863