Manuscript on paper, with parchment for inner and outer bifolia, of 1) Petrarch, Itinerarium breve de Ianua usque ad Ierusalem et Terram sanctam. 2) Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus...
Alternative Title:
[De montibus, sylvis, fontibus lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris] and Itinerarium
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, France (?). Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434.", First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text., From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 1025). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Plain red initial, 5-line, f. 1r; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r. Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. 1r., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854.
Manuscript on paper of Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris, with dedication to Andrea Acciaiuoli.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays from contemporary document adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps fastened in channels in flush wooden boards. A primary endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on tawed skin cores. Remains of red secondary embroidery. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin between central supports. Covered in kermes pink, tawed skin with corner tongues, the sides divided into triangles with right angled and diagonal fillets. Three fastenings, the catches on the lower board and stubs of green fabric straps on the upper board which is cut in to accomodate them. Eight star-shaped bosses on the upper board (one wanting) and five on the lower, each board with four bosses on their spine edges. Inscription on upper cover: "de mulieribus claris". Written in ink on fore edge: "LXXXVIII" with a helmet on each side. Label on lower board wanting., Folio 3r, partial border, of poor quality: in lower margin, a patch of green grass with two women seated, one dressed in red, the other in green and white, supporting a shield with unidentified arms (gules, 3 helmets sable [in outline only]), a later addition. From the patch of grass oak branches with leaves and acorns extend into inner and upper margins. In inner margin, a fox chasing a hare. Folio 80r, a medallion framed in red and pink and four small gold flowers, with an unidentified monogram in gold against blue ground. One pen-and-ink initial, 8-line, blue with pale red penwork. Plain initials alternate in red and blue. Headings in red (ff. 1r-7r only). Many initials touched with red. Guide letters for decorator throughout., Purchased in 1954 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Text written in a well spaced gothic bookhand with humanistic features by a single scribe, below top line. Art. 1 and rubrics added in similar script by another hand., Unidentified arms, with "Cretulia" and "Thurj" added on either side, and inscription in the lower margin of f. 2v: "Quid spectas Thurum [with 3 helmets] sunt hec insignia. Thuris/ Donarunt Sacre Iuno Minerua Venus/ Cretulia., and Watermarks: Briquet Tete de boeuf 14717 and similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.123.
Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs.
Description:
2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167"., Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 55 B.C.-ca. 39 A.D