Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 145
Notes:
Earlier shelf marks: fol. 1r (18th cent.) II, 63; front pastedown: (19th cent.) Bibl. Fiecht, Hs. 63, (20th cent.) DK 271:091/HS 26; in typed catalog: B IV 4.
Provenance:
Ownership on fol. 130r: Monasteri Montis Sancti Georgii 1659. According to the colophon, Cristofferus de Salzeburga copied the Ms. for Abbot Gaspar in Mainz, 1 March 1466.
Physical Issues:
Octavo
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA. Folios 130v-131v not filmed.
1 col. 30 lines (ruling not visible). Collation difficult to discern.
Script:
Gothicoantiqua; humanist.
Scribe:
Cristofferus de Salzeburga
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Simple and divided Lombards with some penwork extensions, but most initials never executed.
Notes:
Foliated in a modern hand. Text in a bookhand with humanistic influences; title, colophon and rubrics in humanistic bookhand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
fol. 2r-130r
Author:
Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374.
Supplied Title:
De vita solitaria.
Rubric:
Francisci petrarce viri aeloquentissimi de vita solitaria liber fueliciter incipit.
Incipit:
Paucos homines novi quibus opusculorum meorum tant
Explicit:
Hunc Librum Venerabilis a c religiosus pate dominu
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Cf. also the colophon on fol. 52r, Anno 1466 Moguntie. The work is edited by Guido Martellotti in: Francesco Petrarca, Prose, ed. Martellotti et al., La letteratura italiana, storia e testi 7 (Milan 1955) pp. 286-590.
