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    • Author/Creator:Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
    • Title:Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Triumphi.
    • Published/Created:Florence, 1464.
    • Physical Description:ff. i + i + 181 + i : parchment ; 250 x 155 (160 x 75) mm.
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    • Notes:Script: Written by Carlo di Palla Guidi in a round humanistic script, above top line.
      Illuminated by Antonio di Niccolo di Lorenzo. The decoration consists of an illuminated title page with full border, white vine-stem ornament on blue, red and green ground with white, blue and pale yellow dots, respectively, with a thin gold bar in all margins, forming a diamond (black) in inner and a roundel with a profile head of a young woman against blue sky with some clouds in the outer margin. In the lower border a medallion (erased) framed in gold and supported by four round-faced putti with multicolored wings in green and red. Superimposed on the border are a variety of multicolored birds, a lion and two putti. These animals are related to animals in contemporary Florentine manuscripts and perhaps reflect the use of a model book. Historiated initial, 10-line, gold, on blue green and red ground with white vine-stem ornament attached to the inner border, with a half-length portrait of Petrarch holding a book against a blue sky with white cloud formations. Six illuminated initials (ff. 143r, 155v, 159r, 168v, 176r, 178v), 6- and 5-line, gold on blue, red and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament extending into margin, and gold dots with hair-line extensions. On f. 143r, initial joined to partial border, same as above. Plain initials in blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Headings in red.
      Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title on spine: "Petrarca". Signed by "CR".
      In Italian.
      Acquired from H. P. Kraus in 1960 by Thomas E. Marston.
      Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
    • Access and use:Material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript on parchment (speckled on hair side) of 1) Petrarch, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. 2) Petrarch, Triumphi.
    • Publications:Faye and Bond, p. 95, no. 261. Dutschke, pp. 190-92, no. 75.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • References:Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 261.
    • Cite as:Petrarch, Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, Triumphi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
      Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
      Italian poetry--To 1400.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century.