Petrarch, Letters (selection) and Secretum; Italy (north-west?), 15th century, third quarter
MS. Laud Misc. 503
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Petrarch, Letters (selection) and Secretum; Italy (north-west?), 15th century, third quarter
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 503
Place of origin
Italian, North-west(?)
Date
15th century, third quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper folded in octavo and (quire 4) quarto. Watermark apparently flower with 8 petals (examples in Piccard mostly from Pavia), except quire 4: tower (type Piccard, Turm, II.333-377, 33mm. between chainlines). Quires supported with parchment guards.
Physical extent
i (parchment) + 112 + i (parchment) leaves.
Hands
Humanistic script; one scribe.
Decoration
Good initial (fol. 1r).
Spaces left for rubrics and for other initials.
Binding
15th-century Italian quarter calf binding.
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
16th-century (?) note on fol. 111v, possibly price or shelfmark; read by Pächt and Alexander as 'Visto 11. 70'
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1637
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Title
Petrarch, Letters and Secretum
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 503
Date
Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Language
Latin
Physical facet
For binding cf. MS. Laud Misc. 512 and 416, 15th century Italian quarter calf
Physical extent
110 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2663 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Petrarch, Letters and Secretum
