Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc. : in Italian

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Title:
Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc. : in Italian
Title (alt.):
Trionfi
Triumphi
Title (uniform):
Rime
Description:
Petrarch's Rime (i.e., his Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) followed by the separately titled Trionfi.
Author:
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Former owner:
Strozzi, Ferdinando, 1774-1836
Former owner:
De Marinis, T.
Former owner:
Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)
Former owner:
Art ancien S.A.
Scribe:
Foresi, Bastiano, 1424-1488
Date:
[1450–1475]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
humanistic scripts
Wooden boards
Clasps
Armorial stamps
Armorial bindings
Manuscripts, Italian--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Poetry
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy > Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Extent:
180 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 197 x 120 (135 x 70) mm bound to 21 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/js95bn94p
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Florence]
Language:
Italian
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1v-2v: First part of the index of first verses of the Rerum vulg. fragm. (the second part follows on the back flyleaves I-II): A qualunque animale - 7.../...Morte à spento quel sol - 138
2. fol. 3-142v: Petrarch, Rerum vulg. fragm.: Francisci P[etrarce] poetae cla[rissimi] sonectorum et cantilenarum liber incipit/ Voi ch'ascoltate 'n rime sparse il sono.../...ch'acolga il mo (sic) spirto ultimo in pace. TELOS./ Francisci petrarce poetae clarissimi sonectorum et cantilenarum liber foeliciter explicit. (nos. 1, 3, 2, 4-28, 29, vv. 1-55, 30-79, 81, 82, 80, 83-119, 122, 120, "Donna mi vene spesso nella mente," 123-135 [nos. 136 and 138 have been cut out], 137, 139-211, 213, 212, 214-242, 121, 243-339, 342, 340, 351-354, 350, 355, 359, 341, 343, 356, 344-349, 357, 358, 360-366)
3. fol. 143-178v Petrarch, Triumphi: Francisci petrarce poetae clarissimi Triumphorum liber unicus foeliciter incipit/ Nel tempo che rinova i mie sospiri.../... Or che fie dunque a rivederla in celo./ Francisci petrarce poetae clarissimi triumphorum VI liber unicus foeliciter explicit. Laus Deo.
4. fol. 179-180: Second part of the index of first verses of the Rerum vulg. fragm.: Nel dolce tempo - 7 ... Zephiro torna - 116.
5. fol. 180v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Florence, in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Possibly in the hand of Bastiano Foresi (see "Script" note, above)
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Effaced library label on front pastedown; Strozzi library stamp (three crescents above an eagle, motto "expecto") on fol. 1 and 3 over original effaced arms ; T. de Marinis (sold by Hoepli, Milan, May 1925, no. 287, pl. 66); l'Art Ancien, Zurich (cat. 26, 1941, no. 30, pl. 5) (SDBM 10367).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by BPL from Hoepli (cat. 1953, no. 29), in October, 1953
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 214
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Dolce mio caro-129
Collation: Parchment, fol. i + 2 (index) + 176 + 2 (index) + i ; i², 1-6¹⁰, 7¹⁰⁻¹, 8-17¹⁰, 18⁶, xix², lacking one leaf after fol. 64 (Rerum nos. 136 and 138) ; quires 1-8 signed vertically A-H in lower right corner of final versoes. Vertical catchwords preserved for quires 9-13 and 15-17, lower right corner of final versoes. Original foliation in red ink, begins with "1" on fol. 3, includes the missing folio after fol. 64, but skips fol. 177 (which should have been numbered "175"), so reaches 176 on fol. 179; modern pencil arabic numbers, lower right corner each recto, beginning with "1" on first flyleaf, those numbers used by Dutschke and here for reference.
Layout: Single column, 29-30 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind, upper and lower writing lines extended full width of page.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive, by the scribe of the Yates Thompson Petrarch (see de la Mare, "New Research", v. 1, pp. 553-54); the same scribe wrote, among other manuscripts, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Montague I; Harvard Houghton Library MS Richardson 46; and fol. 46-81 of Wellesley College Library, Plimpton 492 (Dutschke Census no. 122; see Dutschke). De la Mare suggests that this scribe may be Bastiano Foresi, of Florence (1424-1488). Written in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Two-line blue capitals throughout, at the beginning of each stanza; four-line gold initials with white-vine infill on colors, historiated with a miniature of Petrarch holding a book with white-vine on colors in inner and upper margin, Strozzi arms stamped in medallion in lower center margin, over effaced original arms; four-line panel dividers in blue on fol. 12, 39v and 85v; 10-line miniature in colors on fol. 3, Apollo chasing Daphne.
Binding: Early bevelled wooden boards, rebacked with modern goatskin, hole (for chain?) near lower edges of front cover, metal clasps with Medici arms, straps lacking.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: BPL Quarterly VII (1955): 76; D. Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1986), no. 17; A. de la Mare, "New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence," Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. Annarosa Garzelli ([Florence], 1985): II:553-554, no. 106; B. L. Ullman, Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Censimento dei codici petrarcheschi, no. 1) (Padova, 1964).
Notes (language):
In Italian with Latin rubrics.
Identifier:
06_01_018691
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.130
MS 1552 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846582