IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176627 accession number: MS McClean 172 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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). title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176627 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Didot, Ambroise Firmin TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1480 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1480 culture: 15th Century, fourth quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Petrarch maker: Mangona, Niccolò EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles The Florentine Scribes of Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. 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