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Title

Sonectorum et cantilenarum liber.

Authors

• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Call number

Ms. Codex 2196
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979355422603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1446222610
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hm53d7r

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with Latin headings, and Petrarch's letter about Laura both in Latin (f. 14r-15r) and Italian (f. 15r-15v)

Origin

Date

between 1470 and 1479

Place

Florence, Italy

Summary

15th-century manuscript of Petrarch's Rime (titled in the manuscript as Sonectorum et cantilenarum liber; also known as Canzoniere) and Trionfi, preceded by an index to the Rime by first line, Leonardo Bruni's Life of Petrarch, and Petrarch's short work about Laura, illuminated in the workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico, in Florence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on caption titles of predominant works (f. 16r, 156r).
   
• 1. f.1r-7v: [Alphabetical index of first lines in the Rime] -- 2. f.8r-14r: [Vita di Petrarca / Leonardo Bruni] -- 3. f.14r-15v: Epistola [on Laura, in Latin and Italian] -- 4. f.16r-155v: Sonectorum et cantilenarum liber -- 5. f.156r-192v: Triumphorum liber.
   
• Mid-19th-century fitted wooden box with hinged lid and lock, in the form of a book with leather cover, gilt-stamped and tooled, with gilt author and title Petrarca, Vita e Rime, as though on a spine.
   

Extent

193 leaves : 170 x 105 (120 x 55) mm bound to 185 x 120 mm

Collation

Parchment, i + 193 + i; 1⁸⁻¹(-8) 2⁸ 3-19¹⁰ 20⁸; [1-193], modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto. Vertical catchwords in ink, lower right last verso (except for gatherings 1 (f. 7v), 2 (f. 15v), and 16 (f. 155v), where a text division ends on the last verso).

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century painted vellum; painted spine (abraded portrait, possibly of Laura); flyleaves and pastedowns are fragments of a Spanish manuscript concerning the Monresin family, probably a carta executoria of the 16th or early 17th century

Layout

Written in 30 long lines; frame-ruled in dry point with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, with the first and last lines of text written between the double horizontal bounding lines.

Decoration

1 miniature of Apollo and Daphne with a gold frame, full inhabited floral border with portraits of Petrarch and Laura, animals, putti, and a coat of arms (probably a placeholder), gold title, and a 3-line historiated gold initial on blue ground with portrait of Petrarch (f. 16r); 6 3-line historiated gold initials on blue grounds, partial floral borders, and gold titles at the beginning of each of the Trionfi (f. 156r, 168r, 171v (skeleton), 177v, 187v (hourglass), 190r (Jesus)); 2 illuminated initials with floral marginal extensions (3-line, f. 8r; 2-line, f. 114r); sonnet numbers and a few rubrics in faded red ink; 2-line initials in blue ink throughout.

Script

Written in cursive humanist or italic script.

Provenance

• Formerly held in a private French collection (Christie's).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's (London), 13 December 2023, lot 28.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian poetry

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Poetry
• Sonnets
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Literature -- Poetry

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Spanish manuscript fragment
• fol. 1r — [Alphabetical index of first lines in the Rime]
• fol. 8r — [Vita di Petrarca]
• fol. 14r — Epistola [in Latin]
• fol. 15r — Epistola [in Italian]
• fol. 16r — Sonectorum et cantilenarum liber
• fol. 156r — Triumphorum liber
• fol. 168r — Triumphus secundus
• fol. 171v — De morte triumphus tertius
• fol. 177v — De fama triumphus quartus
• fol. 187v — De tempore triumphus quintus
• fol. 190r — De eternitate triumphus sextus
• Inside back cover — Spanish manuscript fragment

Decorations

• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial F with floral marginal extensions
• fol. 15r — Historiated initial V, Petrarch
• fol. 16r — Small miniature, Apollo and Daphne
• fol. 16r — Full floral inhabited border
• fol. 114r — Illuminated initial I with floral marginal extensions
• fol. 156r — Three-quarter floral border
• fol. 156r — Historiated initial N
• fol. 168r — Partial floral border, left margin
• fol. 168r — Historiated initial Q
• fol. 171v — Partial floral border, left margin
• fol. 171v — Historiated inital Q, a skeleton
• fol. 177v — Partial floral border, left margin
• fol. 177v — Historiated initial N
• fol. 187v — Partial floral border, left margin
• fol. 187v — Historiated initial N, an hourglass
• fol. 190r — Partial floral border, left margin
• fol. 190r — Historiated initial D, Jesus