Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)
This composite manuscript of theological content originally belonged to the patrician family Gossembrot of Augsburg (late 15th century); via Johannes Oporin († 1568), Eusebius Merz († 1616) and Remigius Faesch († 1667), it finally became part of the university library of Basel in 1823. Except for a single remaining woodcut, various miniatures and woodcuts pasted into the manuscript have been torn out.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
- Petrarca, Francesco: Epistula rerum senilium 11,11 ad Lombardum a Serico (222r-222v)
Incipit: Quid michi de hac vita degimus videatur interrogar
Explicit: quod ad bonam et eternam vitam, si non dexter trames deseritur, via est. Vale inter colles Euganeos III Kal. Decembris
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- Petrarca, Francesco: De contemptu mundi colloquiorum liber, quem secretum suum inscripsit (223r-254v)
Incipit: Attonito michi quidem et sepissime cogitanti qualiter in hanc vitam intrassem
Explicit: subsidantque fluctus animi, sileat mundus et fortuna non obstrepat etc. Explicit feliciter.
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- Albrecht, von Eyb (Author) | Andreas, Capellanus (Author) | Baptista Dionysius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Fäsch, Johann Rudolf (Librarian) | Fäsch, Johann Rudolf (Annotator) | Fäsch, Ruman (Librarian) | Fäsch, Ruman (Annotator) | Fäsch, Ruman (Former possessor) | Gerlach, Franz Dorotheus (Librarian) | Gossembrot, Sigismundus (Annotator) | Gossembrot, Sigismundus (Author) | Gossembrot, Sigismundus (Former possessor) | Huber, Daniel (Librarian) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Meisterlin, Sigismundus (Annotator) | Meisterlin, Sigismundus (Scribe) | Merz, Eusebius (Former possessor) | Oporinus, Johannes (Former possessor) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Vegius, Mapheus (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Wimpfeling, Jakob (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex was produced in the opening years of the 16th century. Though it was created at a time when book printing had already proven its usefulness, this manuscript serves to demonstrate a high level of achievement in the calligraphic and illuminatory arts. Copied by Bartolomeo Sanvito, who also produced four other manuscripts of the Canzoniere and the Triumphi by Petrarch, CB 130 was written using a well-balanced, simplified script and refined illuminations. The beginning of the manuscript contains three full-page illustrations on parchment.
Online Since: 03/25/2009
- Petrarca, Francesco: (1304-1374),
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- Petrarca, Francesco: Canzoniere e Triumphi Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: Rvf (c. 11r) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: Rvf (c. 110r) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: francisci petrar/cae florentini poetae / clarissimi trivmphi / amoris trivmphus.I, / et capitvulvm primvm. (c. 11r)
Incipit: Nel tempo che rinova i miei sospiri
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- Petrarca, Francesco: trivmphi amoris / capitvlvm .ii. / (c. 153v)
Incipit: Stanco già di mirar, non satio anchora
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- Petrarca, Francesco: trivmphi amoris / capitvlvm .iii. / (c. 157r)
Incipit: Era si pieno il cor di merauiglie
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- Petrarca, Francesco: castitatistrivmphvs / secvndvs / (c. 163r)
Incipit: Quando ad un giogo
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- Petrarca, Francesco: mortis trivmphvs .iii. / et capitvlvm primvm / (c. 166r)
Incipit: Questa leggiadra et gloriosa donna
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- Petrarca, Francesco: trivmphi mortis / capitvlvm .II. / (c. 169r)
Incipit: La notte
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- Petrarca, Francesco: famae trivmphvs .iv. / et capitvlvm .i. / (c. 172v)
Incipit: Da poi che morte triompho nel volto
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- Petrarca, Francesco: trivmphi famae / capitvlvm .ii. / (c. 174v)
Incipit: Pien d'infinita
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- Petrarca, Francesco: trivmphi famae / capitvlvm .iii. / (c. 177v)
Incipit: lo non sapea
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- Petrarca, Francesco: temporis trivphvs / qvintvs / (c. 179v)
Incipit: Del aureo albergo con l'aurora inanzi
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- Petrarca, Francesco: trivmphvs sextvs / divinitatis / (c. 182r)
Incipit: Da poi
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- Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Sanvito, Bartolomeo (Scribe) | Sanvito, Bartolomeo (Illuminator) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript unites two different collections of Italian poetry: a collection of 380 poems by Petrarch and a collection of works by the preceding generation of poets, especially Dante. In this mysterious "libro de la mia Comare" (Book of my Godmother), the poems of Petrarch are recorded in an archaic script, augmented here and there with individual glosses which are not found elsewhere, apparently in an effort to introduce these texts to a female readership.
Online Since: 05/20/2009
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- Cavalcanti, Guido (Author) | Cinus, de Pistorio (Author) | Dante, Alighieri (Author) | Guinizelli, Guido (Author) | Patetta, Federico (Former possessor) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Rauch, Nicolas (Seller) Found in: Standard description
10th century manuscript of Italian origin, which contains numerous works of rhetoric: the Ars rhetorica by Fortunatianus, the Principia rhetorices by Augustine, the Praecepta artis rhetoricae by Julius Severianus and the Partitiones oratoriae by Cicero. In the 14th century, it became the property of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), who, at various times of his life, added numerous marginal notes. The manuscript demonstrates the humanist's interest in the Oratores latini minores (minor Latin orators), which contributed to their rediscovery and proliferation.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
- Petrarca, Francesco (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Fortunatianus, Consultus (Author) | Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Patron) | Guarnieri Ottoni, Aurelio (Former possessor) | Iulius, Severianus (Author) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Lathrop C. Harper Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (Seller) | Petrarca, Francesco (Annotator) | Petrarca, Francesco (Former possessor) | Rauch, Nicolas (Seller) | Rosenthal, Bernard M. (Seller) Found in: Standard description
De vita solitaria is one of the Latin works by the famous Italian poet Petrarch (1304-1374), who wrote it in 1346 and revised it several times in the course of the following years. Two books praise the secluded, solitary life dedicated to study and meditation. This paper manuscript shows a certain elegance, in the page layout as well as in the two gold initials (p. 7, 103). Its origin is unknown, but before 1892, when it was acquired by the library, it was owned by the canons of Lausanne and a family of notaries from Muraz (Valais). The binding originally consisted of a series of 14th century paper fragments, which were joined together in numerous layers and were later detached and restored. Some of these fragments are papal privileges addressed to members of various French dioceses, others are in Italian from the area of Tuscany, and one contains Hebrew text.
Online Since: 12/10/2020
- Petrarca, Francesco: De vita solitaria Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: De vita solitaria (pp. 7-252) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: Liber primus (11-102)
Incipit: Quid vero nunc prius
Explicit: solitudo tibi loquatior videatur.
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- Petrarca, Francesco: Liber secundus (103-252)
Incipit: Sentio tamen ad huc aliquid deesse
Explicit: bene suades recte consulis. Verum dicis. Deo gratias.
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- Ludolphus, de Saxonia (Author) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains two different texts, both incomplete, in a single 19th century binding. One of these is Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae (1-66), a text that was written in Constance and that was in wide use during the late Middle Ages. The other is Petrarch's De Vita Solitaria (67-116). The first is a parchment manuscript of Italian origin that can be dated to the late 14th or early 15th century; it is written by a single hand in a semi-cursive Gothic script in two columns. What makes this manuscript special is that it was written on a parchment palimpsest that originally contained legal texts written in the 13th century. The second part, by another hand and of French or Swiss origin, contains a text by Petrarch written in a bastarda script in two columns, dated to the 15th century. Both texts contain pen-flourish initials and are interspersed with manicules.
Online Since: 10/10/2019
- Seuse, Heinrich: Horologium sapientiae de Henri Suso et Vita solitaria de Francesco Petrarca Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: Vita Solitaria, Francesco Petrarca (ff. 67-117) ( 67-117) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: De vita solitaria, incomplet (ff. 67r-116v) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: Préface (ff. 67r-67v)
Incipit: ... dierum quindecim spacio degustati
Explicit: tranquilleque mentis aspicias.
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- Petrarca, Francesco: Livre premier (ff. 67v-87r) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco: Livre second (ff. 87r-116r) Found in: Standard description
- Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Standard description
The provost and dramatist Johannes Aal (ca. 1500-1551) was a leading figure in 16th century Solothurn. This composite manuscript, produced between 1517 and 1518, gives an insight into his time as a student. It contains excerpts on Greek and Latin grammar and rhetoric, writings on music theory, as well as excerpts from Petrarch, Guarini, Johannes Reuchlin, Sebastian Brant and others.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Aal, Johannes (Former possessor) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Guarinus, Veronensis (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius (Author) | Reuchlin, Johannes (Author) | Vegius, Mapheus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This collection of works was produced during the third quart of the 15th century, under the influence of early humanism, in one of the southwestern German states. It contains German and Latin texts from the late middle ages as well as some interlinear and marginal glosses. The newer works by humanist authors include contributions by Petrarch, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), Hieronymus de Vallibus and Antonio Barzizza.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
- Petrarca, Francesco: Lombardo de Serico (Ep. sen. 11, 11) (42va–43r)
Incipit: Quid mihi de hac vita quam degimus videatur, interrogas
Explicit: nisi dexter trames deseratur, via est. Vale, inter colles Euganeos iii° Kl. Decembris
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- Adolfus, Viennensis (Author) | Alanus, ab Insulis (Author) | Albertanus, Brixiensis (Author) | Arnoldus, Leodiensis (Author) | Barzizza, Antonio (Author) | Burlaeus, Gualterus (Author) | Hieronymus, de Vallibus (Author) | Jacobus, de Cessolis (Author) | Mönch, von Salzburg (Author) | Petrarca, Francesco (Author) | Pius II, Papa (Author) | Steinhöwel, Heinrich (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) | Vincentius, Bellovacensis (Author) Found in: Standard description