PETRARCH; c. 1465–75
Merton College MS. 326
Merton College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
PETRARCH; c. 1465–75
Shelfmark
Merton College MS. 326
Place of origin
Italy, Florence
Date
c. 1465–75
Language
Italian
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Parchment
Physical extent
174 leaves of parchment prepared in the Italian manner (iii + 171) The lower margins of many leaves have been excised.
Hands
Written in the humanistic bookhand of Giovanni Francesco Marzi di San Gimignano of Florence.
Decoration
Florentine. Large initials have been excised; most of the 3-sided floral border remains on f. 1; gold initials on blue, pink and green grounds, fols. 3v, 7v, 9, 13v, 17v, 18, 22, 26, 29v, 31, 33; rubrics, numbers of Rime and table in pink; thereafter initials of individual Rime blue.
Binding
s. xvii, polished, blind-tooled, sewn on five bands; the marks of a chain-staple on the foredge of the front board near the head. fols. i-ii, 169–71 are blank paper binding leaves.
Provenance
Made in Florence; at the College s. xvii or xviii.
On f. iii, erased,‘Samuell Stokes his booke’, and ‘Day of Heaven. King of England Scotland and France. B. Brothᵉ’, s. xvi.
On f. iiivis ‘Q. 4. 22. Art.’, s. xvii or xviii, canc. and replaced with ‘H. 2. 10’ in red. On f. i is ‘Liber Coll. Mert.’, s. xvii or xviii. Inside the front board is ‘H. 2. 10 (CCCXXVI)’ in red.
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