Texts were identified by J. R. Long in 1990; see his article for an explanation of the authorship of the texts and his reattribution and for an explanation of how Britton was wrongly identified as the author by De Ricci Date of manuscript established by James P. Reilly, Jr. False Petrarchian bookplate contains the motto "Neutro sed ad interna Linterni ornamenta" and the inscription "Fragmentum Bibliothecae Petrarchae" Binding: Re-used parchment over wooden boards; the material is reused from an older, two-columned manuscript and still shows traces of writing; turn ins and front flyleaf also from recycled material; "PHILOSOPHICAE DISCUSSIONES" written in ink on spine Layout: Two columns of sixty-five to seventy-nine lines, lead point ruling; corrections and later notes in margins; written area: 260 x 157 mm Script: Gothic--textualis; single-compartment a Decoration: Blank spaces for illuminated initials at chapter headings Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2056, no. 167. Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), pp. 59-60. no. 53. Related resource: Ullman, Berthold L., "Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States," Italia medioevale e umanistica 5 (1962), p. 462, no. 73 (article pp. 443-475). Related resource: Dutschke, Dennis, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova: Antenore, 1986). Related resource: Long, R. James, "Adam of Buckfield and John Sackville: Some Notes on Philadelphia Free Library MS Lewis European 53," Traditio 45 (1989-1990): 364-367. Related resource: Long, R. James, Adam of Bockenfield, Glossae super De vegetabilibus et plantis: A Critical Edition with Introduction (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013). Provenance: Linterno collection, Milan (bought at Padua, 1640); Carthusians of Garegnano, near Milan (ca. 1700); Duca V. Visconti Modrone, Milan (1779); Giuseppe Bruschetti, Milan (1834); Gaetano Schiepati, Milan (1865); Luigi Arrigoni, Milan (1883); sold by J. Rosenthal at Sotheby (April 12, 1889, no. 550) to Dawson; sale by Sotheby (November 23, 1908, no. 539) to Leighton; Maggs (Cat. 246...
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