Glasgow, University Library (GB)
: Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.7-8
ISTC No.ip00381000
AuthorPetrarca, Francesco
TitleTrionfi (comm: Bernardo Lapini da Siena) e Canzoniere (comm: Franciscus Philelphus)
ImprintVenice : Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1478
Formatf°
Languageita
SubjectLiterature
KeywordsCommentary; Poetry; Collection
PeriodHumanist
Description of Copy
Copy Id02144866
Holding InstitutionGlasgow, University Library (GB)
ShelfmarkSp Coll Hunterian Be.3.7-8
NoteBe.3.7
NoteBound in two volumes.
Variants: Part I: a2r, lines 1-3: the caption title corresponds to the setting of BM 15th cent. copy IB. 20636, not the variant setting described in BM 15th cent. copy IB. 20641; Part I: k1r and k2r (as in BM 15th cent. copy IB. 20636) begin with Petrarch's text and thus agree with the register on 2g10r.
Size of leaves268 × 192 mm
Electronic ReproductionGlasgow Incunabula Project See the description of this item and digitised pages on the Glasgow Incunabula Project's Website
Other IdentifierP23 (Glasgow Incunabula Project)
Provenance
16th century
NoteP. D. (16th century): partially damaged painted coat of arms in the lower margin of a2r: a shield per pale, dexter a pily bendy sinister or and gules, sinister per fess, in chief sable [damaged] in base gules; the shield flanked at each side by a green ribbon which is looped around the initials "P" and "D"
Provenance
1697-1768
NoteLouis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lots 1982 and 1983 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. GaignaT', 2 vols (Paris: 1769)
Provenance
1718-1783
NoteWilliam Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 108 livres 8 sous; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25v)
Provenance
PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
NoteUniversity of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplates on front pastedowns, with former shelfmarks "A.7.21" and "A.7.25".
Binding noteBinding: France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spines; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmarks; flyleaves of both volumes have watermark "L BEAURE LIMOSIN" and bunch of grapes watermark. Size: 274 x 200 mm.
Decoration NoteDecoration: Part I: on a2r an eight-line initial "P" is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, blue and green, which extends into the inner margin; on a4v is a similarly decorated six-line initial "N"; a few smaller initials supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks throughout supplied in alternate red and blue. Part II: on a2r an eight-line initial "V" is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, blue and green, which extends into the inner and upper margins; on the same page the lower margin is decorated with a border of white-vine decoration in the centre of which is a partially defaced or worn coat of arms (see Provenance); on a1v a nine-line initial "F" is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration (the latter heavily water-damaged); a few smaller initials supplied in red; paragraph marks throughout supplied in alternate red and blue.
Manuscript notesAnnotations: Part I: occasional marginal annotations in humanist hands, mainly in Latin but a few in Italian; occasional "nota" marks and pointing hands. Part II: occasional early "nota" marks, underlining and pointing hands; occasional marginal annotations in Italian in a 17th-century hand; foliated from a2-o2 "I"-"LXXXIV" ("LXXIII" repeated).
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2021-08-29 09:45:22