Petrarca, Francesco: Trionfi; Canzoniere.

Trionfi;  commentary by Bernardo Lapini da Siena.   Canzoniere;  commentary by  Franciscus Philelphus.

Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1478.
Fol. Part I: a10 b8 c6 d-e8 f10 g8 h-i6 I8 k8 l-o6.8 p-s6 t10 aa8 bb-ff6 gg10. [196] leaves, the first blank. Part II: a8 b6 c8 d-f6 g8 h-o6. [90] leaves.
ISTC ip00381000; Goff P381; BMC V 254; Bod-inc P-156.
In two parts dated: (I) Trionfi: 6 Feb. 1478; (II) Canzionere: 30 Mar. 1478.

Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.7, 8 (see main library entry for this item)
Variants: Part I:  a2r, lines 1-3:  the caption title corresponds to the setting of BMC copy IB. 20636, not the variant setting described in BMC copy IB. 20641;  Part I:  k1r and k2r (as in BMC copy IB. 20636) begin with Petrarch’s text and thus agree with the register on gg10r.
Provenance: P. D. (16th century): partially damaged painted coat of arms in the lower margin of a2r: a shield per pale, dexter a pily bendy sinister or and gules, sinister per fess, in chief sable [damaged] in base gules; the shield flanked at each side by a green ribbon which is looped around the initials “P” and “D”.
Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lots 1982 and 1983 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769).
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 108 livres 8 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25v).
University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplates on front pastedowns, with former shelfmarks “A.7.21” and “A.7.25”.
Binding: France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spines;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves;  turquoise silk bookmarks;  flyleaves of both volumes have watermark “L BEAURE LIMOSIN” and bunch of grapes watermark.   Size:  274 x 200 mm.
Leaf size: 268 x 192 mm.
Annotations: Part I:  occasional marginal annotations in humanist hands, mainly in Latin but a few in Italian;  occasional “nota” marks and pointing hands.   Part II:  occasional early “nota” marks, underlining and pointing hands;  occasional marginal annotations in Italian in a 17th-century hand;  foliated from a2-o2 “I”-“LXXXIV” (“LXXIII” repeated).
Decoration: Part I:  on a2r an eight-line initial “P” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, blue and green, which extends into the inner margin;  on a4v is a similarly decorated six-line initial “N”;  a few smaller initials supplied in red or blue;  paragraph marks throughout supplied in alternate red and blue.   Part II:  on a2r an eight-line initial “V” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, blue and green, which extends into the inner and upper margins;  on the same page the lower margin is decorated with a border of white-vine decoration in the centre of which is a partially defaced or worn coat of arms (see Provenance);  on a1v a nine-line initial “F” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration (the latter heavily water-damaged);  a few smaller initials supplied in red;  paragraph marks throughout supplied in alternate red and blue.
Imperfections: None.

Decorated page with coat of arms in Petrarca, Francesco: Canzoniere