Collection of verses by Antonio Teobaldo and others, in Italian, manuscript on paper [Northern Italy (probably Treviso), c.1520]

186 leaves (4 blank), 215mm. by 160mm., apparently complete, c.30 lines in brown ink in a variety of loose humanistic hands, initials set in margins, some initial words in faded red, some penwork figleaves at the end of a number of texts, watermark very close to Briquet no.581 (Treviso, 1521), last 2 leaves with repairs, some stains and spots throughout, else good condition, nineteenth-century “2080” and “Codex xxix” on first leaf, contemporary limp vellum with gilt-tooled central cabochon and spine

This is a substantial collection of sixteenth-century Italian verse. Many are directly ascribed to the Renaissance poet, writer and humanist, Antonio Teobaldo of Ferrara (1463-1567, listed in Giraldi’s Renaissance work, Dialogi duo de poetis suorum temporum, 1894, II, p.262; the poet named on pp.3, 6-9, 12-14, 26, 280 and 338 of the present manuscript). Others from his corpus can be found here anonymously (as on p.245: La disperata nuda terra, opening here, “La nuda terra sa gia messo el manto / Tenero …”).