Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s Ms. Codex 1632, a printed edition of John Minsheu’s Dialogos apazibles / Dialoghi piacevoli (Venice: Presso Giacomo Sarzina, 1626), dialogues in Spanish with parallel translations by Lorenzo Franciosini in Italian of 8 dialogues in a variety of situations (for example, at a market, or at a banquet), interleaved with a manuscript copy of the French translation of Cesar Oudin of 7 of the 8 dialogues. Minsheu’s dialogues were first published in 1599; Oudin’s translations were published as early as 1608.
You can read the complete record for this document (and find links to digitized copies) on Franklin. You can also download a copy of this video from ScholarlyCommons, the University of Pennsylvania’s open access institutional repository.
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