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Erotopaignion

Alternate Title:
Erotopaegnion
Contributor:
Castillione, Joannes Jacobus de (dedicatee)
Name:
Angeriano, Girolamo, active 16th century
Timespan:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1510
Description:
Collection of short Latin poems in elegiac couplets, many of which are addressed to "Caelia."
Language:
Latin
Provenance:
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1955.
Subject:
Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800; Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Codices; Poems; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)
Physical Description:
35 leaves : paper; 194 x 146 (148 x 85) mm bound to 196 x 150 mm
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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).; Latin, with title and final words in Greek and notes inside the covers in Greek and Italian.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 838