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1. Canzoniere, Trionfi
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- 1493 (?).
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 706
- Image Count:
- 378
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (trimmed) of 1) Alphabetical index. 2) Extract from Petrarca, Africa, VI, 885-918. 3) Petrarca, Canzoniere. 366 poems. 4) Transcription of a note on the front flyleaf of the Virgil manuscript copied by Petrarch, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS S.P. Arm. 10, scaf. 27. 5) Petrarca, Trionfi
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Copied by one hand writing an unusual and upright form of Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, marked by a conspicuous shape of r; a second hand copied the replacement leaves 108 and 109, and a third hand copied f. 149r-v; both using the same type of script., Pale red headings (the one on f. 9r in Capitalis), subscriptions and plain initials (Capitalis). On f. 9r (beginning of art. 3) splendid 5-line trompe-l'oeil initial in Veneto-Paduan style in the shape of a square purple stone slab showing the letter V and plants in relief, slightly damaged., A section in the middle of ff. 85 and 86 is missing and has been replaced by pieces of paper written by a contemporary hand, and Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp parchment with two modern leather ties. On the spine the inscription in ink: "Petrar** Manuss***".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canzoniere, Trionfi
2. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Triumphi
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- 1464.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 261
- Image Count:
- 374
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (speckled on hair side) of 1) Petrarch, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. 2) Petrarch, Triumphi
- Description:
- In Italian., 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., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title on spine: "Petrarca". Signed by "CR".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Triumphi
3. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 99
- Image Count:
- 299
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of Francesco Petrarca, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. With Francesco Petrarca, Triumphi, Triumphus mortis II, vv. 1-27; and other unidentified poems
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by multiple scribes in various scripts ranging from cancelleresca to gothic bookhand., One historiated initial, rubbed and of poor quality, f. 1v, 6-line, green and red with foliage serifs. The body of initials is formed from a dragon and filled with a portrait of Petrarch seated at a writing table, against parchment ground. Spaces left blank for initials remain unfilled; guide letters for decorator. Opening initial for each verse set apart between vertical bounding lines., and Binding: Twentieth century, England. Dark brown goatskin with a gold-tooled title "Petrarca Francesco Le Rime. Italy Circa 1400". Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, etc
4. Rhyme concordance to Petrarch's vernacular poetical works
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 881
- Image Count:
- 1074
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in 2 volumes of a rhyme concordance (rimario) to the vernacular poetical works of Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), arranged in an approximate alphabetical order
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by one scribe in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva., Watermark: Anchor within a circle, Briquet 586-589., and Binding: 16th century. Venetian de luxe bindings, brown morocco over pasteboard. The covers are bordered with blind-tooled and gold-tooled fillets; gold-tooled corner pieces and in the center gold-tooled coat of arms with two lilies of the Fugger family. On the front cover of vol. 1 are the gold-tooled vowels "A" and "E", on the front cover of vol. 2 the vowels "I", "O" and "V", referring to the content of both volumes. Gold- and blind-tooled spine with three raised bands. Red and green headbands. Gilt and gauffered edges. Marks of four pairs of ties.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Concordances, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rhyme concordance to Petrarch's vernacular poetical works
5. Trionfi
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 438
- Image Count:
- 126
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrarch, Trionfi
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in humanistic bookhand., Six fine miniatures. Each miniature, 12- to 9-line, is rectangular, framed with a thin band of burnished gold (except on f. 39r, a square 14-line miniature in a purple frame edged on both sides with gold). On f. 3v, a full border: putti with swags in upper margin [trimmed], white-vine ornament in side and lower margins, the ground predominantly blue, with some green and pink and with white dots; in outer and lower margin, a gold trellis, with polygonal medallions at corners and midpoints, containing a capital I, and the busts of a child, youth, and young woman; finely drawn animals (stag, goat, panther, rabbit, and fox) superimposed over border. In the lower margin of f. 1r is a coat-of-arms (effaced), supported by four putti and with birds in surrounding vine ornament. For the other miniatures, partial borders with dark blue, green, pink and gold flowers and gold dots and hair-spray. Small medallions containing the letters I, A, C, O, P, O incorporated into successive borders form the name Iacopo (probably the man who commissioned the volume). 3-line initials of gold, infilled green and pink, with delicate white filigree, against blue grounds. Headings and initial of each tercet in gold., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Gilt, gauffered edges. Red calf, gold-tooled with a ribbon border, acorns in the corners and a diced central ornament.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Trionfi
