Details

Subjects:

Devotional literature, Italian.
Italian literature -- Italy -- Sicily.
Italian literature.
Italy -- Sicily.
Italian poetry -- 17th century.
Italian poetry.
Religious poetry, Italian.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian, in the Sicilian dialect.

Summary:

Collection of 60 poems in ottava rima on various religious themes. The author is unknown, but was probably an ecclesiastic.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 160; [1-160]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a single delicate cursive hand, possibly that of the author.
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum. Cover is worn and slightly loose. Various stains and smudges. Edges of some leaves worn.
Origin: Written in Sicily in the early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Brief description, probably by an unidentified bookseller, on file in the Library.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly part of the Giuseppe Martini collection.
Purchased, 1960.

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. 116 (Ms. Italian 115).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 357.

Contributor:

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944, former owner.

OCLC:

155964476