This book is a scholarly study of the manuscript collections of the Italian poet and humanist Petrarch. Pierre de Nolhac provides a detailed examination of the codices that Petrarch collected during his lifetime, including descriptions of their physical properties, their provenance, and their significance for the history of medieval literature. This is an essential text for scholars of medieval literature and the history of the book.

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