IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176628 accession number: MS McClean 173 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + iv original parchment flyleaves (foliated 1a-4a in modern pencil) + 78 fols. (original ink foliation in Roman numerals for fols. 1-73) + ii original parchment flyleaves (foliated 82-83 in modern pencil), 280 x 190 mm (175 x 160 mm), 44 lines ruled in brown ink in index (fols. 1a recto - 3a recto), 28 verse lines ruled in brown ink or hardpoint (fols. 1-72), catchwords. BINDING: Late nineteenth century, gold-tooled purple morocco over wooden boards, by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf (1853–1930) CONTENTS: fols. 1a recto - 3a recto First line index to the Rime fols. 1r-73r Petrarch, Canzoniere, divided between Canzoniere 261 and 264, with Canzioniere 262 and 263 (that is Sonetti 225 and 226) added at the end DECORATION: Two historiated initials with full inhabited borders of acanthus foliage and gold discs in red, blue and green, scrolling to create roundels containing portrait busts: fol. 1r [V, 5 ll.] Half-length author portrait, with individual male and female figures in the upper border, and the same male and female figures (some in Dominican garb) embracing in roundels in the lower margin, after having been struck by an arrow shot by the god of Love who is accompanied by a bearded grotesque and winged dragon in the outer margin; fol. 51r Canzone 37 [I, 7 ll.], Petrarch at his desk, with individual male and female figures in the upper border roundels, while in the outer margin a skeletal figure of Death accompanied by a dragon and grotesques points a spear at grouped figures in the lower border. ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initials [3 ll.] with red pen flourishing for each sonneto and canzone; alternate red and blue paraph marks for stanza divisions within canzoni. title: other NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ownership inscription LIBER […] Ludovichus with letters in a fifteenth-century hand (fol. 83r); owned in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by members of the Peregrino family (note in a fifteenth century hand, fol. 73r: Antonius peregrinus scripsit. Sum pius eneas libicis ereptis ab ondis Italiam querens. Amen laus deo sit semper; fols. 81v and 82r, fragments of sonnets Sconsolato arbosello and Non valle copied in an italic hand and signed Ego Io. Ant. Peregrinus scripsit); no. 110 in a Milan bookseller’s catalogue. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Frank McClean STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176628 PEOPLE ------------------- McClean, Frank Peregrino family TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1400 - 1400 creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1400 culture: 15th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Petrarch CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part Two. Vols. 1-2: Italy and the Iberian Peninsula --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20173_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 541 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/mid_MS_20McClean_20173_20_281r_29.jpg height: 721 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20173_20_281r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 541 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/preview_MS_20McClean_20173_20_281r_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb16/MS_20McClean_20173_20_2851r_29.jpg height: 780 pixels width: 540 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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