Wellesley College, P901

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16399

Shelfmark:

P901

Title:

Trionfi

Triumphs

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Petrarch WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy (Florence?)

Italy TGN

Florence TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 47 leaves : parchment ; 210 x 140 (131 x 83) mm

Former Owner(s):

Rucellai family

House of Rucellai WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Parchment. 1-410, 58−1 (final folio was originally a pastedown). Vertical catchwords. Foliated in modern pencil.
Layout: 1 column, 24 lines. Bounding lines doubled, bounding and writing lines in blind.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand in black ink. Rubrics are red epigraphic capitals.
Decoration: Fol. 1: 3/4 scrolling border in gold and colors with birds, in the lower border a wreath supported by cupids containing with Rucellai arms (party per bend, gules a lion sable [for argent] and or two [for three] fesses vivrees azure); 4-line initial on fol. 1 in gold with white-vine infill, unfinished; the other thirteen cantos begin with a 3-line gold initial on blue background...
Origin: Written in Italy (possibly Florence) in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Owned by (produced for?) the Rucellai family (see arms on fol. 1)
Sold by a French dealer in the 19th century.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Wellesley College Library

Italian poetry

Early works

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626090

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/31679/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College