Epistola d[omi]ni Frans[is]ci Petrarche laureati 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. In preconium omniu[m] laudabilium mulierum.

Accession number: 
PML 88
Author: 
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1469]
Description: 
[12] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-2⁶]: 12 leaves, leaf [2]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century dark brown morocco over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Bruges illuminated initial and floral border (leaf [1]/1r), blue initials with penwork decoration and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes. Annotations: Several contemporary textual corrections and marginal notations throughout.

Provenance: 
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 58, 11/5/94 (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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