Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 548
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- Manchester Digital Collections
- Library
- The John Rylands Library
- Shelfmark
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- 548
- Biblissima authority file
- Date
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- 1604
- Language
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- Italian
- Title
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- Partenodoxa, o vero Esposition della canzone del Petrarca alla Vergine Madre di Dio. (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.)
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- Celso Cittadini (1553-1627)
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- Author
- Original form
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- Cittadini, Celso, 1553-1627.
- Other form
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- Celso Cittadini
- Cittadini, Celso (1553-1627)
- Cittadini, Celso, 1553-1627
- Biblissima portal
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Silvestro Marchetti (15..-16..)
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- Printer
- Original form
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- Marchetti, Silvestro
- Biblissima authority file
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- Preferred form
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- Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944)
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- Bullock, Walter Llewellyn, 1890-1944
- Biblissima authority file
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- Description
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- Extent:
[8], 147 [i.e. 139], [5] p., 4°. Leaf height: 210 mm, width: 150 mm.
Binding:
Contemporary[?] limp parchment covers; sewing supports visible in front and rear hinges; head and tail band stitching visible at corners of spine; tie remnants visible on at edges of front and back covers; MS direct-lettered on spine: Partenodoxa del Cittadini / 1604.
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):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
Abstract:
Format:
Codex
Provenance:
MS inscription on front fly-leaf recto: Eva nella liberia dell' abate Vaselli / Bibliotecaro Regio; illegible MS inscription on front fly-leaf recto including the date 1799; MS inscription on front paste-down: Walter L. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); University of Manchester Library bookplate on lower paste-down: Walter Ll. Bullock Collection; accession no. 342767.
Extensive MS annotations in Italian throughout, likely in the hand of Celso Cittadini, including amendments and crossings out; four leaves with MS notes in the same hand pasted between leaves D1-D2,E1-E2,G3-G4,K2-K3 and a remnant of a leaf on rear fly-leaf verso; later Italian MS note on front fly-leaf recto concerning the rarity of the volume due to corrections and additions made by the author.
Note(s):
Signatures: A⁴, ²A-T⁴.
Text in roman type with passages quoted in it in italic type; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s canzone set on left followed by commentary distributed across the page beneath; printed annotations in the margins; printed numbering; engraved title-page within architectural frame.
Numbers 93-94, 115-120 omitted in paging.
Dedication dated MDC; colophon dated MDCVII.
Colophon reads: In Siena. Nella Stamparia di Saluestro Marchetti. M D C V I I. Con Licenza de’ Superiori.
Publication:
Siena : appresso Salvestro Marchetti, MDC IIII [1604]
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- Siena (Tuscany, Italy)
- Original form
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- Italy Siena.
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- Sienne
- Italy, Siena
- Siena
- Biblissima portal
- Biblissima authority file
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- Rights
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