Canzoniere, Trionfi

Description

Title: Canzoniere, Trionfi
Creator: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Published / Created: 1493 (?).
Publication Place: Verona
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (trimmed) of 1) Alphabetical index. 2) Extract from Petrarca, Africa, VI, 885-918. 3) Petrarca, Canzoniere. 366 poems. 4) Transcription of a note on the front flyleaf of the Virgil manuscript copied by Petrarch, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS S.P. Arm. 10, scaf. 27. 5) Petrarca, Trionfi
Description: In Italian.
Script: Copied by one hand writing an unusual and upright form of Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, marked by a conspicuous shape of r; a second hand copied the replacement leaves 108 and 109, and a third hand copied f. 149r-v; both using the same type of script.
Pale red headings (the one on f. 9r in Capitalis), subscriptions and plain initials (Capitalis). On f. 9r (beginning of art. 3) splendid 5-line trompe-l'oeil initial in Veneto-Paduan style in the shape of a square purple stone slab showing the letter V and plants in relief, slightly damaged.
A section in the middle of ff. 85 and 86 is missing and has been replaced by pieces of paper written by a contemporary hand
Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp parchment with two modern leather ties. On the spine the inscription in ink: "Petrar** Manuss***".
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. i +186 + i : 185 x 120 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian poetry > To 1400
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.