Wellesley College, P485
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16396
- Shelfmark:
- P485
- Title:
- Canzoniere; I trionfi
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Place:
- Italy (Venice?)
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- ita
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: i, 184, i leaves : parchment ; 245 x 162 (165 x 82) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hamilton, William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of, 1845-1895
San Giorgio maggiore (Monastery : Venice, Italy)
- Note:
- Collation: Parchment. ii, i (original parchment flyleaf with boss-stains at corners), 16, 2-1910, i (original parchment flyleaf), ii. Vertical catchwords. Modern pencil foliation.
Layout: 1 column, 29 lines. Double vertical bounding lines, blind-ruled writing lines.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in brown ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line initials in colors and/or gold; fol. 1r: full-page border in gold and rich, dark colors with 4-line gold initial and 8 roundel animal vignettes in border, angels in lower margin holding arms (party per pale gules and white or argent, the Bon family of Venice); 147v: outer border in similar style as fol. 1r, with an angel holding a 6-line gold letter [L
Origin: Written in Italy, probably Venice, in the late fifteenth century; arms, on first page, of first owner (Bon family of Venice)
Given in the sixteenth century to the Benedictines of San Giorgio Maggiore, at Venice, by a monk apparently named Tita Meratti, with the donation recorded in the sonnet on f. 184v (see Jackson, p. 424). Probably part of the Gerardo Sagredo collection, Venice, n. 117 in Catalogo di una libreria che si trova bendivile in Venezia appresso Giambatista Albrizzi [ca. 1746], p. CCXXXVII, n. 117. The... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626076
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/29589/manifest
- Holding Institution:
