[Il Genesi]

Name:

Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1500

Description:

Poetical paraphrase of Genesis by Pietro Aretino.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Vicentius Marini (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Appears in Weiss cat. 1 (1926), no. 3.; Sold by Martin Breslauer, cat. 67 (1949), no. 7.

Subject:

Italian literature -- Early works to 1800; Italian poetry -- Early works to 1800; Italian poetry; Italian literature

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

109 leaves : paper; 211 x 136 (154 x 86) mm bound to 215 x 137 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch) and from description pasted inside upper cover; see also f. 1r, 2r and 3r.; Spine title: Prefatio nel Genesi.; Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch and from description pasted inside upper cover.; Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in ink.; Script: Written in a 16th-century humanistic script by a single hand, allegedly in the autograph of Pietro Aretino (seller's description, inside upper cover).; Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch).; Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Some oxidation of ink in places, occasionally making the text hard to read.; Binding pulling loose in places; spine breaking between ff. 36-37. Cover splitting, cracking and peeling at spine and at edges.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 244