Stowe MS 954

SONETTI and Canzoni of Petrarch, entitled "Lamentationes domini Francisci Petrarce de amore domine Laure." Preceded by an index of first lines, and followed in the same hand (f. 150) by the Triomphi, headed "Triumfi vi. Petrarce." The reverse of the last leaf contains a copy of Petrarch's note on the death of Laura, originally written in his MS. of Virgil, but differing in giving the date on which he heard of it as the xxviiii^th day of May instead of the xix^th. On the fly-leaves of the volume are some verses in different hands of later dates. Vellum; ff. 184. XVth cent. With an illuminated capital and a blank shield for a coat-of-arms within a border on the first page, an illuminated capital at the beginning of the Triomphi, and other initials in red and blue. Bound in wooden boards, covered with stamped leather, rebacked. Quarto.

Francesco Petrarca, poet: Sonetti, Canzoni, e Trionfi: 15th cent.

Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Petrarca, Sonetti, etc.: initials and border: 15th cent.