Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Le vita di Dante Allighier et di Messer Francesco Petrarcha / Leonardo da Rezzo.
Call Number
Garrett MS. 170
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjd4739786
Publisher
[Florence, Italy], [after 1436]
Language
Italian
Date Created
1436-1500
Extent
30 leaves : paper ; 215 x 135 (134 x 185) bound to 221 x 147 mm.
Provenance
Unknown early and intermediate provenance. Sold by E. P. [Ernst Philip] Goldschmidt in 1936 to Robert Garrett of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 390-391.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1r-2r: [Preface to Le vite di Dante e del Petrarca]
2. fol. 2r-19r: La vita di Dante.
3. fol. 19r-29r: [La vita di] Francesco Petrarcha.
Notes
Incipit: "Qui cominca la Vita di dante alinghieri(!) Conpilata da messere Lionardo darezzo nostro poeta fiorentino. Avendo in questi giorni posto fine a una opera assai lungha mi uenne appetito per ristoro dello affatichato ingegnio uolere leggere alchuna cosa uolghare ..."
Explicit: "Finita la vita di dante allighier et di messer Francesco petrarcha facta per lo detto messer leonardo da Rezzo Cittadino Fiorentino Lanno mccccxxxvi del mese di maggio Fecit."
Ms. codex.
Title from explicit (fol. 29r).
Manicules (fol. 1v, 3r, etc.)
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv (modern paper) + 30 + iv (modern paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 20 long lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (modern endpapers: "Ingres d'arches", "MB...", "(France)"; text: hunting horn)
Decoration: Five 2-line red initials faded to pink, with faint penwork flourishes extending into the margins. Many capitals washed in ochre. On fol. 29v is an early modern pen drawing of a man.
Origin: Produced in Florence after 1436.
Binding Note
Later binding. London, England, early 20th century by Sangorski & Sutcliff. Dark brown goatskin over pasteboard. Blind-tooled edging. Gold-stamped title and author on spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Dante Alighieri 1265-1321—Early works to 1800
Petrarca, Francesco 1304-1374—Early works to 1800
Authors, Italian—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Italian—New Jersey—Princeton
Manicules
Watermarks
decorated initials
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
80

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b70c7e1c-8e4d-4fd2-a7b4-a5cfd9bb547d/manifest