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Trionfi
Author:
Petrarch
Scribe:
Mangona, Niccolò
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i parchment flyleaf + 42 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 223 x 145 mm (137 x 70 mm), 27 verse lines, ruled in hard point, catchwords
BINDING: Contemporary, possibly Florentine (Mann 1975, 168), red leather over wooden boards with bevelled edges, sewn on four supports, gold-tooled with panels of cable-pattern and foliate motifs.
CONTENTS:
fols. 1r-14r Petrarch, Trionfo dello Amore
fols. 14r-81r Petrarch, Trionfo della Pudicia
fols. 18v-21v Petrarch, Trionfo della Morte
fols. 21v-36r Petrarch, Trionfo della Fama
fols. 36r-38v Petrarch, Trionfo dello Tempo
fols. 39r-41v Petrarch, Trionfo della Eternita
ORNAMENTATION: One faceted initial [N, 4 ll.] in gold and red on a square ground of solid colour with foliate motifs in gold, accompanied by a one-sided classicizing border of urns and foliage in red, green and purple with gold highlighting on a shredded blue ground, and in the lower border, a circular laurel wreath with putti supporters on a shredded purple ground, housing a shield of arms, now overpainted with new arms, a red crayfish on a blue ground (fol. 1r); five faceted initials [3 ll.] of the same type for major text divisions (fols. 14r, 18v, 21r, 36r, 39r); eight faceted initials [2 ll.] of the same type for minor text divisions (fols. 4r, 7v, 11r, 14r, 17v, 21v, 28r, 30v).
History note: Original arms over-painted; Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790-1876), his bookplate on verso of upper pastedown; his sale, Paris, 1881, lot no. 41; Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
15th Century, fourth quarter
Production date:
circa
AD 1480
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 172
Primary reference Number: 176627
Project ID: 484
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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