Former owners include (details from notes of Angelina Feo Light): Jacopo Soranzo (1686-1761), Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1806) and Walter Sneyd (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Sold by Martin Breslauer (London), 1947.
134 leaves : paper; 267 x 205 (148 x 116) mm bound to 275 x 212 mm
Personal Name:
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
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Notes:
Ms. codex.; Binding: Contemporary tooled red morocco with gold stamping. Edges of book block gilded and stamped with a vine-leaf design. Cover slightly cracked at spine, splitting at hinges. Paper damaged in places due to oxidation of ink.; Title from caption title (f. 1r). Attribution from Zacour-Hirsch.; Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 134 + i (contemporary paper); [ii], 1-24, [i], 25-130, [i]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, lower center recto. Leaf between f. 24-25 evidently skipped by accident when the folios were numbered. Other unnumbered leaves, at beginning and end, have no text.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. Every page has an ink border and the caption "Rime di T." written above the poem. Text written only on the recto of each folio.; Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th or early 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Italian.
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