Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1761

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The John Rylands Library
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  • 1761
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Date
  • 1537
  • 1555
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Thesoro de sacra scrittura (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta)
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Description
  • Extent:
    [128] leaves, portrait, 16 cm. (8vo). Leaf height: 155 mm, width: 100 mm.
    Binding:

    Contemporary[?] parchment wrappers; sewing supports visible in front and rear hinges; later paper spine covering; MS title on spine: Salvatorin [sic] / Tesora / sopra / Petrarca / c.1540.


    Acquisition:

    Donated to the The University of Manchester by Hélène Louise Bullock, widow of Walter L. Bullock, Serena Professor of Italian, in 1944.


    Data Source(s):

    Created as part of the project 'Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c.1350-c.1650' funded by the AHRC and led by Professor Simon Gilson (University of Oxford, Principal Investigator), Dr Federica Pich (University of Leeds, Co-Investigator) and Dr Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester, Co-Investigator), edited and revised by Julianne Simpson


    Subject(s):
    Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front pastedown: Walter Ll. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); accession no. 344234.


    Note(s):

    Without pagination or foliation.

    The work was composed in 1537. Fowler gives the date of publication as 1537, EDIT 16 as 1539, BM STC Italian as 1540 and Adams as 1555.

    Place of publication and publisher statement from colophon.

    Colophon reads: Stampato in Vinegia per Comin da Trino de Monferrato. Con gratie & privileggi de molti prencipi, et specialmente della illustrissima Signoria di Vinegia, et con breve Apostolico.

    Signatures: A-Q⁸.

    Petrarch's poems in italic type with references to the Bible in the margins.


    Publication:
    Stampato in Vinegia : Per Comin da Trino de Monferrato, [between 1537 and 1555?]
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