Petrarch, Trionfi d'Amore and Trionfi della Castità ('Triumph of Love' and 'Chastity'), fragment from an illuminated manuscript in Italian on vellum 8 leaves (4 bifolia), 135-55mm. by 190-216mm., written space 85mm. by 133mm., single column, 23 lines in dark brown ink in a fine and accomplished humanistic bookhand, one large 5-line initial 'S' (opening the second canto of the Triumph of Love: 'Stanco già di mirar non station ancora ...') in blue, and a single 5-line initial 'Q' (opening the Triumph of Chastity: 'Q[uando] a un giogo & a un tempo vidi ...') in burnished gold with white-vine infill on a background of green and pink, all on blue ground, minor rubbing to one corner of the white-vine initial, some trimming to the base of the leaves but with no effect to text, all somewhat rubbed and faded on verso with numerous seventeenth-century scribbles including the name of Lorenzo Gondi di Firenze, the years 1664-7 and phrases such as 'entrate di bestie' (perhaps from re-use to enclose the accounts of this member of the Gondi family of Florence), hence in somewhat defective condition
Petrarch, Trionfi d'Amore and Trionfi della Castità ('Triumph of Love' and 'Chastity'), fragment from an illuminated manuscript in Italian on vellum 8 leaves (4 bifolia), 135-55mm. by 190-216mm., written space 85mm. by 133mm., single column, 23 lines in dark brown ink in a fine and accomplished humanistic bookhand, one large 5-line initial 'S' (opening the second canto of the Triumph of Love: 'Stanco già di mirar non station ancora ...') in blue, and a single 5-line initial 'Q' (opening the Triumph of Chastity: 'Q[uando] a un giogo & a un tempo vidi ...') in burnished gold with white-vine infill on a background of green and pink, all on blue ground, minor rubbing to one corner of the white-vine initial, some trimming to the base of the leaves but with no effect to text, all somewhat rubbed and faded on verso with numerous seventeenth-century scribbles including the name of Lorenzo Gondi di Firenze, the years 1664-7 and phrases such as 'entrate di bestie' (perhaps from re-use to enclose the accounts of this member of the Gondi family of Florence), hence in somewhat defective condition
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