Three poems

Description

Title: Three poems
Creator: Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1550]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (one leaf) of Three poems. MS 352, f. 88 from a larger volume, may be Benivieni's working copy, since words and verses have been added and deleted throughout; all three columns on both recto and verso have been struck out. The three poems were once thought to be the autograph works of Lorenzo de' Medici
Description: In Italian.
Script: Written in a vigorous notarial script.
Leaf is mutilated and has been repaired extensively.
Boxed.
Provenance: Sold by the bookdealer Niels Hansen Christensen as the work of Lorenzo de' Medici to S. Harrison Thomson from whom it was acquired in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
Extent: f. 1 : 286 x 192 (238 x 160) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542.
Subject (Topic): Italian poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542
Italian poetry > 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Girolamo Benivieni, Three Poems. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.