Extent: 193 leaves : parchment ; 170 x 105 (120 x 55) mm bound to 185 x 120 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger based on caption titles of predominant works (f. 16r, 156r). Collation: Parchment, i + 193 + i; 18−1(-8) 28 3-1910 208; [1-193], modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto. Vertical catchwords in ink, lower right last verso (except for gatherings 1 (f. 7v), 2 (f. 15v), and 16 (f. 155v), where a text division ends on the last verso). Link to collation model at end of record. Layout: Written in 30 long lines; frame-ruled in dry point with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, with the first and last lines of text written between the double horizontal bounding lines. Script: Written in cursive humanist or italic script, by the scribe of the former Yates Thomson Petrarch (now Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Gulbenkian 129, proposed as Bastiano Foresi by Albinia C. de la Mare, "New research on humanistic scribes in Florence," in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1450-1520: Un primo censimento, 1985; scribe of Ms. Codex 2196 identified by Francesco... Decoration: 1 miniature of Apollo and Daphne with a gold frame, full inhabited floral border with portraits of Petrarch and Laura, animals, putti, and a coat of arms (probably a placeholder), gold title, and a 3-line historiated gold initial on blue ground with portrait of Petrarch (f. 16r); 6 3-line historiated gold initials on blue grounds, partial floral borders, and gold titles at the... Binding: 19th-century painted vellum; painted spine (abraded portrait, possibly of Laura); flyleaves and pastedowns are fragments of a Spanish manuscript concerning the Monresin family, probably a carta executoria of the 16th or early 17th century Origin: Written in Florence, probably in the 1470s (Christie's). Mid-19th-century fitted wooden box with hinged lid and lock, in the form of a book with leather cover, gilt-stamped and tooled, with gilt author and title Petrarca, Vita e Rime, as though on a spine, housed separately and shelved with the manuscript. Formerly held in a private French collection (Christie's). Sold at auction at Christie's (London), 13 December 2023, lot 28.
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