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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 749

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Manchester Digital Collections
Library
The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 749
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1562
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Espositione
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    [4], 51, [1] leaves, 20 cm. (4to) Leaf height: 197 mm, width: 143 mm.
    Binding:

    Paper wrappers; direct-lettered MS on spine: Erizzo. Espositione del Petrarca.


    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):
    Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front cover: Walter Ll. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); University of Manchester Library bookplate on front pastedown: Walter Ll. Bullock Collection; accession no. 343069.


    Note(s):

    A reissue of the first edition, published in 1561.

    Colophon reads: In Venetia per Bernardino Fasani. M D LXI.

    Petrarch’s poems in roman type, commentary in italic type; printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left with prose text of commentary distributed across the page beneath each of them.

    Printer's device on the titlepage and on *3v.

    Leaves 34-36 are wrongly numbered 33-35.

    Signatures: *⁴, A-N⁴.

    Leaf *4 is blank.


    Publication:
    In Venetia : Appresso Andrea Arriuabene, M LXII. [1562].
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