Boston Public Library, MS f Med.27
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3347
- Shelfmark:
- MS f Med.27
- Title:
- Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc. : in Italian with some Latin].
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between 1400 and 1499].
- Language:
- In Italian with some Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 117 leaves : Paper ; 292 x 215 (210 x 113) mm bound to 30 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Missinisi, Vincenzo Paolino, active 15th century
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Secundo folio: Fugendo la prigione...
Collation: Paper (with watermarks: "M" crowned, similar to Briquet 8403; three mountains similar to Briquet 11650-11658; both watermarks are of Italian origin), fol. iii + 7 + 3 +107 ; i4−1 (1st leaf is pastedown) 18−1 (one leaf cancelled or lacking after fol. 7) 23 (singletons) 3-1010 116 1210+1 (fol. 117 is tipped-in singleton) ; catchwords written in lower right corner, final verso of each...
Layout: One column, approximately 47 lines. Bounding lines ruled by creasing or light plummet.
Script: Written in three humanistic bookhands: 1) fol. 11-96 and 97-117v; 2) fol. 1-5v; 3) late-15th-century additions, fol. 8-10v and fol. 96v. Brown ink. 6- and 8-line initial spaces left unfilled on fol. 11 and 97; stanzas begin with 3-line initials in blue with red harping or red with red harping, with some flourishes forming inkwork profiles.
Decoration: Stanzas begin with three-line initials in blue with red harping or red with red harping, with some flourishes forming inkwork profiles.
Binding: 17th-century (?) vellum over pasteboard; thin paper used for front pastedown and first two flyleaves (encircled arbalete watermark with letters FB, surmounted by a clover, probably Venetian), heavier, more modern paper for final flyleaf and pastedown, 17th-century title handwritten on spine, "PETRARCA/ Sonetti/ e/ Rime." Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell case, title gilt on spine...
Origin: Written in Italy in the early 15th century.
Provenance: Late 15th-century signature "Vincenzo Paolino Missinisi," lower margin of fol. 1; early 16th-century(?) signature partially trimmed, fol. ii: "Ex libris d[?] Panz."; marginal notes throughout, especially in the Trionfi; early modern inscriptions in Italian on fol. iii and 2; notes in English on fol. i comparing this manuscript with the edition of Lodovico Castelvetro (Venice...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased at the Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 466 (lot number written inside front cover) to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (BPL bookplate inside front cover, embossed on fol. 1-3, Cockerell's notes inside front cover).
Call number: MS f Med.27.
Former call number: MS G.31.78.
Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval manuscripts in the Library," More Books III (1928): 68. D. Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1986): no. 16; B.L. Ullman, Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Censimento dei codici petrarcheschi, no. 1) (Padova, 1964) (also in Italia medioevale e umanistica, v [1962], 443-475; E.H. Wilkins, "Manuscripts of the... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444680
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/bc389m83j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
