Cento imprese
By: fatte da fra Francesco Cuomo nella caduta del cipresso nel giardino del sig.re Vittorio Prioli in Leccio à II di marzo 1615
Contributors: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374; Virgil; De Palma, Valerio; Stegemeier, Henri, 1912-, former owner; Post-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)
Published: 1615
Place of publication: Italy
Language: ita
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Manuscripts; Cypress; Italian Manuscripts; Poetry; Pictorial works; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Description: Ms. emblem book, with drawings in sepia and gold ink depicting a falling or fallen cypress tree in the garden of Vittorio Prioli of Leccio, Italy, on 2 March 1615. Most of the mottoes, in Italian or Latin, are taken or adapted from Petrarch or Virgil. Contains two laudatory poems: "Valerio de Palma à Frà Fran.co Cuomo." (fol. 2) and "In Lode dell'Autore frà Gioanne Sezzo. Francescano." (fol. 103).
Notes: Ms. codex.

Collation: Paper, fol. i (pastedown) + 104 (foliated 1-101).

Binding: Contemporary limp vellum; gilt edges; "Fran:co Cuomo" in ink on spine.

Provenance: "Henri Stegemeier" embossed on front pastedown and fol. 1 -- Purchased from Prof. Henri Stegemeier, 23 April 1982.

Former shelfmark: Emblems MS 704.946 C92c (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).

McGeary & Nash.  Emblem books at the University of Illinois, C45

McGeary, Thomas. "Manuscript Emblem Books at the University of Illinois." In Emblematica 2 (1987): 357-370.

Sider & Obrist.  Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts (1997), 158
Table of contents: title: For complete contents, see Thomas McGeary, "Manuscript Emblem Books at the University of Illinois," in Emblematica 2 (1987): esp. 361-366.