[Trattato come si coltivino li giardini]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1675

Description:

Treatise on gardening.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Accessioned, 1959.

Subject:

Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

35 leaves : paper; 201 x 141 (162 x 113) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Heading and incipit (f. 3r): Risposta di lettera ad un amico. Mi recerchi con gran premura la descrittione del mio giardinetto ...; Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 35 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-28, [iv], contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; 168-202, second set of contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto; [1-35], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. The second set of contemporary foliation indicates that this work was probably at one time bound into a larger volume.; Layout: Written in 23-26 long lines.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in a second hand.; Binding: Modern boards. Modern rebinding has eliminated the gutter on the verso side of each leaf and has thereby caused some text to be lost. Some stains and smudges.; Origin: Written in Italy in the late 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 294