The Petrarch
author
Francesco Petrarch
(Arezzo, 1304 - 1374, Arquà Petrarca)
printer
Aldus Manutius
(Bassiano, about 1450 - 1515, Venice)
Date1546
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions40.6 x 25.4 cm (16 x 10 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.a.3.4
eMuseum ID728063
EmbARK ObjectID17134
Other NumberARC.007509
TMS Source ID5435
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 vol., 176, [18] p. : paper ; ill. ; 41 cm. (8°)Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesSotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Choice Library of the late Edward Cheney, Esq. (London, 25-29 June 1886), lot 1394.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 3.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 3.
MarksNotesAffixed: bookplate of Edward Cheney
Enclosed: typed bibliographic description.
Enclosed: dealer catalogue lot description for Aldine Press copy of Il Petrarca, 1546
Enclosed: photocopy of typed bibliographic description for Il Petrarca
Enclosed: paper strip, inscribed in pencil: "1564"
Enclosed: typed bibliographic description.
Enclosed: dealer catalogue lot description for Aldine Press copy of Il Petrarca, 1546
Enclosed: photocopy of typed bibliographic description for Il Petrarca
Enclosed: paper strip, inscribed in pencil: "1564"
ProvenanceNotesCollection of the English art collector and watercolorist Edward Cheney (1803-1884).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Cheney sale from the auctioneers Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London for £1 on 20 July 1886, lot 1394, through the bookseller and publisher Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), London and the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Cheney sale from the auctioneers Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London for £1 on 20 July 1886, lot 1394, through the bookseller and publisher Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), London and the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).
