Details

Other Title:

Ortografia italiana

Subjects:

Bartoli, Daniello, 1608-1685.
Spadafora, Placido, 1628-1691.
Italian language -- Accents and accentuation -- Early works to 1800.
Italian language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Italian language -- Grammar.
Italian language -- Accents and accentuation.
Italian language.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Compendium of the rules of Italian orthography and prosody taken from works by Daniello Bartoli and Placido Spadafora in three sections; 1) orthographic rules from Bartoli's Dell'ortografia italiana; 2) rules from Bartoli's Il torto e 'l diritto; 3) rules of prosody from Spadafora's Prosodia italiana. The manuscript includes 2 indexes (p. 164-170, p. 35-44).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, 120 leaves; [ii], 1-170, [ii], 1-49, [xvii].
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with final section in what appears to be a second hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy, 1701 (colophon, p. 163).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Francesco M. Baralino (inscription, inside upper cover).
Sold by Robert H. Rubin Books (Brookline, Mass.), cat. 57, 2003.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 927

OCLC:

155925169