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De insigni obedientia et fide uxoria Griseldis in Waltherum.

Accession number
PML 195
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Object title

De insigni obedientia et fide uxoria Griseldis in Waltherum.

Published

Ulm : Johann Zainer, 1473.

Description

[10] leaves ; (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit epistola Francisci Petrarche de insigni obedientia et fide uxoria Griseldis in Waltherum.
Colophon (leaf [1]/10v): Ulme impressum per Ioha[n]nem zeiner de Reutlingen Anno domini .1.4.7.3.
Printed in Zainer's type 2:110R.
Collation: [1¹⁰]: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut border on leaf [1]/1r.
For variants see CIBN P-155.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.9 x 18.7 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with printed paper sides over boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Historia Griseldis: Epistola de obedentia Griseldis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required; woodcut border painted and initial illuminated (leaf [1]/1r). Annoations: No notations in text.
Provenance
English manuscript bibliographic description, tipped-in, 19th century (rear fly leaf); Benedetto Maglione (1841-1892), of Naples; his sale, Paris, 22 Jan. 1894, lot 545 (lot description tipped-in, rear fly leaf); Sotheby's, unidentified sale, Oct. 1898-July 1899 (see Book Prices Current, XIII, 4907), described as on vellum, sold to Deacon for £5.15s (lot description tipped-in, rear fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department