Saint Louis University, VFL MS 029
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS10038
- Shelfmark:
- VFL MS 029
- Title:
- Canzioniere e Trionfi] /
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Place:
- Florence
- Date:
- ca. 1450-1480
- Language:
- In Italian
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 179 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 228 x 130 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Vernon, George John Warren, 1803-1866
Thomas, Sewell
Thomas, Marie
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 30 verse lines; ruled in dry point, with visible prickings in outer margin. Quires mainly of 10 folios, with signatures and occasional vertical catchwords.
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Decoration: On fol. 8r, one 4-line burnished gold initial, historiated with a bust of Petrarch clothed in a hooded mauve academic robe, crowned with a laurel wreath; 3-sided white vinestem border inhabited by birds, threaded with gold bars and outlined in blue; at lower center an overpainted medallion supported by putti standing on animals (wolves?). On fol. 143v, Petrarch's Epitaph in red...
Binding: Rebound and foliated in pencil in 2010 by Richard C. Baker; formerly bound in 19th-century vellum over paper boards, inscribed on spine "Petrarca" and below "MS;" gilt and gauffered edges.
Origin: Written and illuminated in Italy, probably Florence, ca. 1450-1480.
Original arms on fol. 8r now painted over in blue; bookplate of George John Warren, 5th baron Vernon on front pastedown with motto: "Vernon. Semper Viret;" Lord Vernon Sale (London, Sotheby's, 1-12 June 1918, lot 395) to G.D. Smith; owned by Sewell and Marie Thomas; gift of Marie Thomas, 1967.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, VFL MS 029. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977560x
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS029_44/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
