IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176670 accession number: MS 170 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 8 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf + 185 fols. (fol. 2 a later insertion) + i paper flyleaf, 240 x 150 mm (175 x 80 mm), 30 verse lines, ruled in hard point, vertical catchwords BINDING: Eighteenth century, gold-tooled brown leather over wooden boards, with carta bassanese marbled endpapers, marbled edges. CONTENTS: fols. 3r-98v Petrarch, Canzoniere, 1-263 fol. 99r-99v Nota de Laura fol. 99v Petrarch, Epistola to Giacomo da Colonna (Rerum familiarum, II, 9) fol. 99v Petrarch, Epistole metrice 7 fols. 100v-140v Petrarch, Canzoniere, 264-366 with omissions fols. 142r-178r Petrarch, Trionfi (Mann 1975, 165) fols. 179r-185v Alphabetical index of first lines to the Canzoniere DECORATION: Double-page architectural frontispiece (fols. 1v-2r) in the form of two steles, each on a gold plinth flanked on the left by an urn and on the right by a swan, with text FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE CLARISS. VULGARIA FELICITER INCIPIUNT. DD. (fol. 1v) and SONETTI, & CANZONI DI Messer. FRANCESCHO PETRARCHA .DD. (fol. 2r), a full-page bust-length author portrait in an architectural frame on a gold ground housed in an arched frame with legend FRAN: PET: EFFIG: beneath (fol. 2r). ORNAMENATION: Three faceted initials [6-9 ll.] in liquid gold and red on solid grounds of green or dark grey with foliate interlace in blue and gold or blue and red at the start of the Canzoniere and the Trionfi; plain initials [2 ll.] in blue, pink, green and purple for each canzoniere up to fol. 11v, thereafter blue only; rubrics in epigraphic capitals in gold, blue, pink, green and purple; scrolling blue, green and pink linefiller and partial border on fol. 1r. title: manuscript NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly owned by Count Antoine Apponyi (d. 1817) of Vienna; to his son, Count Louis Apponyi of Nagy Appony, Hungary; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10-15 November 1892, lot 928; bought by Samuel Sanders (1837-1894); presented by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1892. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176670 PEOPLE ------------------- Sanders, Samuel Apponyi of Nagy Appony, Count Louis Apponyi, Count Antoine TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1465 - 1470 creation date earliest: 1465 creation date latest: 1470 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Petrarch maker: Salla, Antonio da EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of Italian Illumination: Romanesque - Gothic - Renaissance CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Antonio Tophio and Bartolomeo Sanvito Sanvito and Tophio 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 Pier Antonio Sallando o "il più excellente scriptore credo habia il mondo" Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe. --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20170_20_281v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 517 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/mid_MS_20170_20_281v_29.jpg height: 735 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20170_20_281v_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 517 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/preview_MS_20170_20_281v_29.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb4/MS_20170_20_282r_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 511 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