Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 919
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- 919
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- 1549
- Language
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- Italian
- Title
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- Il Gello sopra vn sonetto di M. Franc. Petrarca.. (O tempo, o ciel volubil, che fuggendo.)
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- Giambattista Gelli (1498-1563)
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- Author
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- Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 1498-1563.
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- Lorenzo Torrentino (1500?-1563)
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- Printer
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- Torrentino, Lorenzo, d. 1563
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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:
89, [3] p., portrait, 18 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 169 mm, width: 100 mm.
Binding:
Nineteenth-century[?] paper over boards; paper decorated with large abstract floral print in light and dark green; paper spine label; MS title on spine: Gelli ~ / Sopra / 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):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
Abstract:
Format:
Codex
Provenance:
From the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); University of Manchester Library bookplate on front pastedown: Walter Ll. Bullock Collection; accession no. 343238.
Note(s):
Printed by Lorenzo Torrentino (see Moreni, D. Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino, p. 75).
Printer's device on the titlepage.
Woodcut portrait of the author on the verso of the title-page.
Final leaf is blank.
Petrarch’s poem and lecture in italic type; printed numbering; single lines or small sections of Petrarch’s poems set on left, with prose text of lecture distributed across the page beneath each of them.
Signatures: A-E⁸, F⁶.
Petrarch's sonnet "O tempo, o ciel volubil, che fuggendo" and commentary in italic type. The sonnet is divided in three parts, the commentary follows each part.
Dedicated to S. Livia Tornella contessa Buonromea.
Publication:
In Firenze : [Lorenzo Torrentino], MDXLIX. [1549]
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- Florence (Tuscany, Italy)
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- Italy Florence.
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- Mantua and Florence
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