Census of the Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD COLLEGE, HOUGHTON LIBRARY

Ms. Typ. 425

Parch., ff. 92 not numbered, 260 × 190 mm., written in a humanistic script. Decoration: one illuminated border and 7 illuminated initials. Binding: bound in 19thߚcent. mottled sheepskin. ff. 1-2, Petrarch, Vita Terrentii . Ms. also contains: f. 2rv, Argumentum Andriae , inc. "Orto bello ...". (Y. F. Riou, "Essai sur la tradition manuscrite du "Commentum Brunsianum" ..., Revue d’histoire des textes, 3 [1973], 109-13). f. 2v, Epithaphium Terentii (Anthologia latina 487 c). ff. 3-17v, Andria . ff. 17v-33v, Eunuchus . ff. 34-49, Heauton Timorumenos . ff. 49-63, Adelphoe . ff. 63-75v, Hecyra . ff. 75v-91v, Phormio . ORIGIN
Written in Ferrara in 1463, see colophon on f. 92, "Scriptum Ferrarie anno M^oCCCC^oLXIII^o indictione undecima die Sabati XVII^o mensis decembris hora XVI diei". PROVENANCE
On f. 1, "Lucretii Pullodii de Al. ... et Alexandro filio", in a s. XVI-XVII hand; also on f. 1 is a coat of arms, unidentified. BIBLIOGRAPHY
De Ricci, Suppl., p. 278. C. Villa, La "Lectura Terentii", I, Da Ildemaro a Francesco Petrarca (Padova, 1984) (Studi sul Petrarca, 17), 310.¹ Dutschke, Census, no. 25, p. 92.

Notes

1. My thanks to C. Villa for information regarding this manuscript.

Abbreviations

De Ricci, Suppl.: Supplement of De Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C.U. Faye and continued by W.H. Bond. New York, 1962.

Dutschke, Census: Dutschke, D. Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States, Padova, 1986.

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