Wellesley College, P492

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DS ID:

DS16410

Shelfmark:

P492

Title:

Del ben parlare / Bono Giamboni]. Per che non toglieva moglie / [Silvio]. I Trionfi / [Francesco Petrarca

Del ben parlare

Per che non toglieva moglie

Triumphs

Author:

Bono Giamboni, approximately 1240-approximately 1292

Bono Giamboni WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy (Florence?)

Italy TGN

Florence TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 82, i leaves : parchment ; 205 x 133 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 205 x 133 (129 x 80) mm [Giamboni and Silvio], (127 x 74) [Petrarch]. 12, 2-58, 68−1, 78, 8-1010, 113, cancel after fol. 39. Horizontal catchwords with red penwork (often faded) [Giamboni and Silvio]; vertical catchwords [Petrarch]. Later foliation in ink.
Layout: 1 column, 30 lines. Writing lines in blind [Giamboni and Silvio]; double vertical bounding lines, bounding and writing lines in light brown ink [Petrarch
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand [Giamboni and Silvio], humanistic cursive [Petrarch], in brown ink. Rubrics originally red, now mostly faded and illegible.
Two scribes: one for Giamboni and Silvio, one for Petrarch.
Decoration: 2-line blue initials throughout; 3-line gold initials with colors at the beginning of each section of the Trionfi. Three 5-line gilt initials with white-vinework, green and salmon infill on blue background with arms in lower margin; Strozzi on fol. 3 and 40, unidentified arms on f. 46 (argent fretty or, possibly the Anselmi of Florence). 1v: green, blue and salmon ornament, gilt...
Origin: Written in Italy, probably Florence, in the late fifteenth century; the Giamboni and Silvio texts are from the Strozzi collection, with the Strozzi arms (or on a fess gules three crescents argent); the Petrarch, which is written by a different scribe and is codicologically different from the first two texts, with arms possibly of the Anselmi of Florence.
"Silvio" may be Enea Silvio Piccolomini(?).
Owned by George A. Plimpton.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Wellesley College Library

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626510

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/30077/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College