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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Incunable Collection, 18509

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 18509
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1473
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • [Canzoniere e Trionfi]. (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi | Triumphi)
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Description
  • Extent:
    [130] leaves, fol. Leaf height: 317 mm, width: 195 mm.
    Binding:

    Early 19th century red goatskin over boards with gilt tooling; doublures. Bound by Charles Lewis - see Dibdin, Bib. Spenc., v.7, p.85. Spencer arms on upper board (Stamp 2 - garter).


    Decoration:

    A few coloured initials at the beginning, otherwise most spaces for initials have just an empty black border. Sections in the middle (gatherings g-l) seem to have solid black stamps where the initials should be (eg. fol. [g1r]). Most of these have been smudged by the washing/bleaching process.


    Acquisition:

    Part of the Spencer library acquired by Enriqueta Rylands in 1892 from John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910), 5th Earl Spencer for The John Rylands Library


    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:

    The Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and Triumphi without tables or other additional apparatus.


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    From the library of the Duke of Cassano, of Naples [i.e. Luigi Cassano Serra (1747-1825), 4th Duke of Cassano, Marquess of Rivadebro], purchased by Spencer in 1820. See Dibdin, Bib. Spenc., v.7, p.173.

    Armorial bookplate of The John Rylands Library 1894 on front paste-down and oval leather label: E Bibliotheca Spenceriana; from the collection of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).


    Condition:

    Leaves [kv] and [kvi] misbound.


    Additions:

    Extensive marginal annotations throughout which have been washed and most no longer legible.


    Note(s):

    Imprint from colophon. Place of publication from ISTC.

    The Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and Triumphi without tables or other additional apparatus.

    Petrarch’s poems in roman type, printed with one verse per line, and prose texts; no printed numbering

    Signatures: [a-f¹⁰ g⁸ h-m¹⁰ n¹²]


    Publication:
    [Milan] : Impressum p[er] Antonium Zarotu[m] parme[n]sem, M.CCCCLXXIII. [1473]
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