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Canzoniere e Trionfi

Author: Petrarch (Italian, 1304–1374)
Printer: Gabriele di Pietro (Italian, active 1472–1481)
1473
Place of Publication: Venice, Italy

Medium/Technique Printed book, unillustrated
Dimensions Overall: 27.7 x 19.5 x 3.5 cm (10 7/8 x 7 11/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line George Nixon Black Fund
Accession Number35.657
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Venice: [Gabriele di Pietro, not before 13 August] 1473

Catalogue Raisonné Goff P-375; Essling 75; BMC V 199
Description(Venice: [Gabriele di Pietro, not before 13 August] 1473) Folio; 188 leaves [lacking first eight and last five leaves; leaf 183 bound at front of volume]; bound in nineteenth-century gilt-stamped green morocco, red label.

Unillustrated; the illuminated woodcut border around outside and bottom of the first leaf of text has been mounted from another source. Initial A inscribed in pen and brown ink within shield at bottom of the same leaf, and some of the text on that leaf is in pen facsimile. Leaf "C73" has been inserted from another copy; it is a repeat of leaf "C45."
ProvenanceEdward Vernon Utterson (1777-1856); Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928); his heir John Marshall, from whom purchased by MFA, May 2, 1935