Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc

Description

Title: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc
Creator: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1425]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. With Francesco Petrarca, Triumphi, Triumphus mortis II, vv. 1-27; and other unidentified poems
Description: In Italian.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in various scripts ranging from cancelleresca to gothic bookhand.
One historiated initial, rubbed and of poor quality, f. 1v, 6-line, green and red with foliage serifs. The body of initials is formed from a dragon and filled with a portrait of Petrarch seated at a writing table, against parchment ground. Spaces left blank for initials remain unfilled; guide letters for decorator. Opening initial for each verse set apart between vertical bounding lines.
Binding: Twentieth century, England. Dark brown goatskin with a gold-tooled title "Petrarca Francesco Le Rime. Italy Circa 1400". Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. iv + i + 142 + i + iv : 212 x 144 (ca. 155-150 x 95-90) 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: Petrarch, Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.