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: 1 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: 2-line blue capitals throughout, at the beginning of each stanza; 4-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; 4-line panel dividers in blue on fol. 12, 39v and 85v; 10-line... Binding: Original 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) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 18869); 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), Oct. 5, 1953 (SDBM 57064) 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...
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