Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1274
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- 1274
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- 1588
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- Italian
- Title
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- Lettioni
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- Filippo Massini (1559-1618?)
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- Author
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- Massini, Filippo, 1559-1617 or 1618.
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- Giovanni Guidiccioni (1500-1541)
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- Guidiccioni, Giovanni, Bishop of Fossombrone. Avezzianci à morir ....
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- Giovanni Battista Fazio
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- Editor
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- Fazio, Giovanni Battista, 16th cent.
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- Pietro Giacomo Petrucci (15..-1610?)
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- Printer
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- Petrucci, Pietro Giacomo, active 1567-1609
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- Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944)
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- Former owner
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- Bullock, Walter Llewellyn, 1890-1944
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- Description
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- Extent:
[8], 185, [3] leaves, 22 cm (4to) Leaf height: 208 mm, width: 157 mm.
Binding:
Nineteenth-century[?] paper board with tape spine cover; direct-lettered on spine: Masini / Lettioni / 1588.
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):
Castelvetro, Lodovico, 1505-1571.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
Abstract:
Format:
Codex
Provenance:
Ownership inscription "[?] Bernardij" on the titlepage.
Remains of a bookseller's ticket [the only legible letters are the initials "LIBRER"] on front pastedown.
MS inscription on front pastedown: Walter L. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); accession no. 343677.
Additions:
UML copy at Bullock 1274: Italian MS note "L'autore è Filippo Masini" on front pastedown.
Note(s):
With the Academy's device on the titlepage and the printer's device at end.
Colophon reads: In Perugia apresso Pietroiacomo Petrucci. M. D. LXXXVIII.
All the 'lettioni', except the first, have distinct titlepages, but pagination & register are continuous throughout.
Each of the four parts has a dedication signed by the editor: Gio. Battista Fatio.
The first lecture (p. 1-38) is a defence of Petrarch's poems against the accusations moved by Lodovico Castelvetro.
Petrarch’s poems in italic type and lecture in roman type; printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set in central blocks, with prose text of lecture distributed across the page beneath each of them.
Signatures: *⁴, A-Y⁴, Z⁶.
Publication:
In Perugia : Apresso Pietroiacomo Petrucci, M. D. LXXXVIII. [1588]
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- Perugia (Umbria, Italy)
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- Italy Perugia.
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- Perugia
- Pérouse (IT)
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