Boston Public Library, MS q Med.286

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DS ID:

DS3532

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.286

Title:

Sonetti, capitoli, canzoni, et madrigali di Ms. Pietro Bembo.

Author:

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547

Pietro Bembo WIKIDATA

Perlano, Guglielmo, active 16th century

Guglielmo Perlano WIKIDATA

Place:

Lucca, Italy]

Lucca TGN

Date:

between 1538 and 1540

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 51 leaves : paper ; approximately 170 x 66 (175 x 103) mm bound to 18 cm (8vo)

Former Owner(s):

Zuccaro, Nello, active 20th century

Zuccaro, Nello, active 20th century WIKIDATA

Govi, Fabrizio

Fabrizio Govi WIKIDATA

Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Lucerne, Switzerland)

Gilhofer & Ranschburg. Lucerne, Suisse WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Italian.
Title from caption on fol. 4v; date range from Perlano's dedication and from the date inscribed on fol. 1r; place of production from dedication; some elements of this record transcribed from dealer's description.
Collation: Paper, with watermark showing a paschal lamb inside a circle with a diameter of 40 mm, similar, but not identical to, Briquet 50 ; fol. 51 ; 12 28−1 36 4-78 84 ; leaves unsigned, foliated in modern pencil in upper-outer margins, these numbers used here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 17 lines per page. Writing area, unruled, of approximately 170 x 66 mm
Script: Written in a humanist cursive in brown ink.
Binding: Bound in contemporary blind tooled goatskin. Holes for ties on edges of both covers.
Origin: Copied for, or possibly by, one Guglielmo Perlano, of Bibbiena, in Lucca, Italy, on 10 June, 1538. Perlano dedicates the copy to Girolamo di Taddeo Ducci, of Florence.
Provenance: Pen trials, notes, inscriptions, and autographs at front and back. These include an early/contemporary note on front pastedown: "Questo libro a facto Pietrantognio Muti da Bibbiena." Two encrypted notes at front dated 5 April, 1540. In lower margin of fol. 4v: "S. Ant. Corsetti." On fol. 49v, later inscription by Giovanni Cosi[?]. On fol. 50v: "Bar Francesco diavaneto Pandorfo suo...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Govi Rare Books, New York, in June, 2022.
Call number: MS q Med.286.

Keyword:

Poetry

Inscriptions

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Italian

Autographs

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444899

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s7529583d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library