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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3467

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.130

Title:

Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc.; in Italian

Rime

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Petrarch WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Foresi, Bastiano, 1424-1488

Bastiano Foresi WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 180 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 197 x 120 (135 x 70) mm bound to 21 cm

Former Owner(s):

De Marinis, T

Tammaro De Marinis WIKIDATA

Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)

Hoepli WIKIDATA

Art ancien S.A

Art ancien S.A. WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Italian with Latin rubrics.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Secundo folio: Dolce mio caro-129
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 2 (index) + 176 + 2 (index) + i ; i2, 1-610, 710−1, 8-1710, 186, xix2, lacking one leaf after fol. 64 (Rerum nos. 136 and 138) ; quires 1-8 signed vertically A-H in lower right corner of final versoes. Vertical catchwords preserved for quires 9-13 and 15-17, lower right corner of final versoes. Original foliation in red ink, begins with "1" on fol. 3, includes...
Layout: Single column, 29-30 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind, upper and lower writing lines extended full width of page.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive, by the scribe of the Yates Thompson Petrarch (see de la Mare, "New Research", v. 1, pp. 553-54); the same scribe wrote, among other manuscripts, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Montague I; Harvard Houghton Library MS Richardson 46; and fol. 46-81 of Wellesley College Library, Plimpton 492 (Dutschke Census no. 122; see Dutschke). De la Mare suggests that this...
Decoration: Two-line blue capitals throughout, at the beginning of each stanza; four-line gold initials with white-vine infill on colors, historiated with a miniature of Petrarch holding a book with white-vine on colors in inner and upper margin, Strozzi arms stamped in medallion in lower center margin, over effaced original arms; four-line panel dividers in blue on fol. 12, 39v and 85v...
Binding: Early bevelled wooden boards, rebacked with modern goatskin, hole (for chain?) near lower edges of front cover, metal clasps with Medici arms, straps lacking.
Origin: Written in Florence, in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Possibly in the hand of Bastiano Foresi (see "Script" note, above)
Provenance: Effaced library label on front pastedown; Strozzi library stamp (three crescents above an eagle, motto "expecto") on fol. 1 and 3 over original effaced arms ; T. de Marinis (sold by Hoepli, Milan, May 1925, no. 287, pl. 66); l'Art Ancien, Zurich (cat. 26, 1941, no. 30, pl. 5) (SDBM 10367);
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL from Hoepli (cat. 1953, no. 29), in October, 1953
Call number: MS q Med.130.
Former call number: MS 1552.
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 76; D. Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1986), no. 17; A. de la Mare, "New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence," Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. Annarosa Garzelli ([Florence], 1985): II:553-554, no. 106; B. L. Ullman, Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States...

Keyword:

Wooden boards

Armorial bindings

Armorial stamps

Poetry

Clasps

Manuscripts, Medieval

Italy

humanistic scripts

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444803

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library