Epistola d[omi]ni Francisci Petrarche laureate poete ad d[omi]n[u]m Ioh[ann]em Florentinu[m] poetam de historia Griseldis mulieris maxime co[n]stantie et patie[n]tie.

Accession number: 
PML 20622
Author: 
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1469]
Description: 
[12] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
Polain dates about 1470.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.4 x 14.4 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century quarter laced parchment, with paste paper sides, over wooden boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Mrs. W.T. Otto, Feb. 1928. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative, stuck-on endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: A few modern (in pencil) marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Francesco Orazio Beggi (active 1848-1864), monogram bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelfmark: 2.E (front pastedown, on Beggi bookplate), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 6 Dec. 1897, lot 2878 for £6.6.0 to J. & J. Leighton; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 336 to Quaritch for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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