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