University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 303

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DS ID:

DS1491

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 303

Title:

De la rapina di Proserpina

De raptu Proserpinae

Author:

Claudianus, Claudius

Claudian WIKIDATA

Place:

Lombardy?

Lombardy TGN

Date:

before 1546

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 72 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 148 (146 x 90) mm bound to 218 x 149 mm

Former Owner(s):

Middleton, J. J

J.J. Middleton WIKIDATA

Middleton, Henry

Henry Middleton WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Spine title: La rapina di Proserpina.
Heading and incipit of book I (f. 1r): L'ira, l'orgoglio, et i destrieri ardenti del tiranno infernal rapace; e il carro. Onde già di fumoso halito oscuro / Il ciel si sparse, e le superne stelle / ...
Inscription at end (f. 68v): 19 ienno [i.e., ianuario?] 1546 Alexandro[?]. Fascoli[?]. The manuscript appears to be 16th century in date, and the inscription on f. 68v indicates that it must have been written before 1546.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 72 + iii (modern paper); [ii], [1-68], [ii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except for the inscription at the end (f. 68v).
Decoration: Illuminated initials with foliate ornamentation (f. 1r, 17v, 42r).
Binding: Modern boards. Previously bound in 18th-century gilt leather; rebound at some date after Zacour-Hirsch was compiled in 1965.
Origin: Written in Lombardy[?] before 1546 (f. 68v, Zacour-Hirsch).
Edges of book block gilded.
Some stains. Ink on some folios worn and rubbed.
Formerly owned by J. J. Middleton (bookplate, inside upper cover); willed by him to Henry Middleton of South Carolina, 1849 (inscription on bookplate, inside upper cover).
Accessioned, 1959.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Persephone (Greek deity)

Latin literature

Early works

Classical literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915809113503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3h12v79k/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania