Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 888

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 888
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Date
  • 1581
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Lettione
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    29 [i.e. 34] leaves, 15 cm (8vo) Leaf height: 143 mm, width: 98 mm.
    Binding:

    Nineteenth-century[?] decorated paper over boards; direct-lettered MS on spine: 1581 / Gandini : Il Naso di Laura ecc : Rime.


    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 fly-leaf recto: Walter L. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); University of Manchester Library bookplate on front pastedown: Walter Ll. Bullock Collection; accession no. 343205.


    Condition:

    Missing leaves d5-6.


    Additions:
    Foliation from leaf 26 to the end is illegible because misprints in numeration have been corrected in ink.
    Note(s):

    Francesco De Franceschi's device on title-page.

    Colophon reads: In Vinegia, appresso Pietro Dusinelli. M D LXXXI.

    Gandini's lecture in roman type and Petrarch's quotations in italic type; Gandini's poems in italic type.

    Signatures: a-c⁸, d¹⁰.


    Publication:
    In Vinegia : Al segno della pace, 1581
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