Wellesley College, P1187

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12785

Shelfmark:

P1187

Title:

I trionfi

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Petrarch WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii, 46, iii leaves : parchment ; 150 x 91 (90 x 43) mm

Former Owner(s):

Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936

George Arthur Plimpton WIKIDATA

Plimpton, Francis T. P. 1900-1983

Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Parchment. 1-410, 56 [probably 58−2, since quire is signed e1-4]. First half of quires signed a1 ... a5-e1 ... e4. Foliated in s. XIX brown ink in arabic numerals.
Decoration: Six 3-line gold-leaf initials (for Trionfi 1, 5, 7, 10, 13, and 14) filled with blue or salmon with white highlighting in a salmon or blue frame. One 6-line gold-leaf initial, folio 1r, filled with white-vine on a blue background extending into upper and left margin, decorated with gold buds and filled in colors, historiated with winged cupid holding a bow and shooting an arrow. In...
Layout: 1 column, 24 lines. Double bounding lines, full-length to all sides, bounding and writing lines in blind, prickings for bounding and writing lines.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century.
Script: Written in an Italian Gothic bookhand in brown ink, partially faded. Spaces for rubrics left blank.
Nineteenth-century dealer's catalogue description inside front cover. Owned by George A. Plimpton.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Italian

Italian language

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626073

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/36466/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College