(Q2654)
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Chomincia lo libro di lamore di troiolo & da chriseida, Capitulum primum,
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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The arms on fol. 1r are flanked by the initials ‘A’ and ‘M’, similar to but not precisely identical with those of Marin, of Genoa, and Marini, of Naples; Payne and Foss, their cat. May 1825, no. 83; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), bought from Payne, his MS 4194.
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doubtless Messrs. W. H. Robinson, who bought the residue of the Phillipps library in 1945-46; George A. Poole (bought from Lawrence Witten, 1955), and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
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s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in old (perhaps eighteenth-century) limp vellum; in a quarter red morocco fitted case.
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Other decoration, ff. 1r-119v: Headings in pale red; stanza initials in pale red, 2-line initials in blue; large illuminated initial on fol. 1r and coat-of-arms.
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Script, ff. 1r-119v: Humanistic.
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Layout, ff. 1r-119v: Collation: i–iv#^8#, v#^6# [evidently complete as written, although 20 stanzas are missing between fols. 34 and 35], vi–xiv#^8#, xv#^8+1#, mostly with vertical catchwords in red ink readable from the left; ruled in brown ink, 24 lines, written-space 129 mm. by 78 mm. (although in practice the lines are not usually as wide as that).
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Manuscript note: About 80 manuscripts of the Filostrato are known, including three others in America, at the Beinecke, the Morgan Library and among the Plimpton manuscripts at Wellesley College.
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Bibliography: Phillipps 1837-71, p. 64; Branca 1963, p. 19; Branca 1991, p. 33.
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ff. 1r-119v: The script of the Poole manuscript is characteristically Milanese. A very similar copy of Petrarch is London, BL, Add. MS 31825 (Backhouse 1997, no. 185). The penwork of the opening initial is similar to those designed by Guiniforte da Vimercate, of Milan.
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ff. 1r-119v: Latin.
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ff 1r- 119v: The manuscript begins on fol. 1r, “Chomincia lo libro di lamore di troiolo & da chriseida, Capitulum primum, Alqun di giove sogliono . . .”(Pernicone 1986, p. 16), continuing with cantos 2 (fol. 11r), 3 (fol. 35r), 4 (fol. 40v), 5 (fol. 79r), 6 (fol. 90v, without heading), 7 (fol. 96r), 8 (fol. 113r) and 9 (fol. 118v, without heading), all ending on fol. 119v, “. . . lieta a me...
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Incipit, ff 1r- 119v: lieta a me tenvieni FINIS.
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Explicit, ff 1r- 119v: Alqun di giove sogliono.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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