Current Location: In storage
Titles
Canzoniere and Trionfi
Maker(s)
Author:
Petrarch
Scribe:
Salla, Antonio da
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Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 185 fols. (fol. 2 a later insertion) + i paper flyleaf, 240 x 150 mm (175 x 80 mm), 30 verse lines, ruled in hard point, vertical catchwords
BINDING: Eighteenth century, gold-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, with carta bassanese marbled endpapers, marbled edges.
CONTENTS:
fols. 3r-98v Petrarch, Canzoniere, 1-263
fol. 99r-99v Nota de Laura
fol. 99v Petrarch, Epistola to Giacomo da Colonna (Rerum familiarum, II, 9)
fol. 99v Petrarch, Epistole metrice 7
fols. 100v-140v Petrarch, Canzoniere, 264-366 with omissions
fols. 142r-178r Petrarch, Trionfi (Mann 1975, 165)
fols. 179r-185v Alphabetical index of first lines to the Canzoniere
DECORATION: Double-page architectural frontispiece (fols. 1v-2r) in the form of two steles, each on a gold plinth flanked on the left by an urn and on the right by a swan, with text FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISS. VULGARIA FELICITER INCIPIUNT. DD. (fol. 1v) and SONETTI, & CANZONI DI Messer. FRANCESCHO PETRARCHA .DD. (fol. 2r), a full-page bust-length author portrait in an architectural frame on a gold ground housed in an arched frame with legend FRAN: PET: EFFIG: beneath (fol. 2r).
ORNAMENATION: Three faceted initials [6-9 ll.] in liquid gold and red on solid grounds of green or dark grey with foliate interlace in blue and gold or blue and red at the start of the Canzoniere and the Trionfi; plain initials [2 ll.] in blue, pink, green and purple for each canzoniere up to fol. 11v, thereafter blue only; rubrics in epigraphic capitals in gold, blue, pink, green and purple; scrolling blue, green and pink linefiller and partial border on fol. 1r.
Notes
History note: Possibly owned by Count Antoine Apponyi (d. 1817) of Vienna; to his son, Count Louis Apponyi of Nagy Appony, Hungary; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10-15 November 1892, lot 928; bought by Samuel Sanders (1837-1894); presented by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1892.
