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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1530

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 1530
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Date
  • 1508
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Petrarcha con doi commenti sopra li sonetti et canzone. (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi. | Triumphi.)
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Description
  • Extent:
    2 parts in 1 (119, [5]; [8], 140 leaves), ill. (woodcuts), 4to. Leaf height: 187 mm, width: 129 mm.
    Binding:

    16th century[?] full parchment over boards; sewing supports visible in front and rear hinges; gilt-tooled spine label with floral border: Petrarc / con / Philelp.; direct-lettered MS at base of spine: 1508.


    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 paste-down: Walter L. Bullock; accession no. 343965.


    Condition:

    Imperfect: fols ²A1-²A6 are missing; the initial from ²A6v has been pasted over beginning of text on ²A7r.


    Additions:

    Some marginal MS annotations throughout; pen trials and illegible MS inscription on sig. RR12v.


    Note(s):

    Signatures: A-P⁸, a⁴, ²A⁸, AA-QQ⁸, RR¹² (P8 and ²A1 blank)

    Petrarch’s poems and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; some of Petrarch’s poems set on left (or in right) in small block, with commentary distributed on three sides; some other of Petrarch’s poems set on left in a sequence of blocks, with commentary distributed in single column on right; some other ones set on both left and right in two horizontally aligned blocks, with commentary distributed across the page beneath each set of two blocks.

    Six full-page woodcuts. Each triumph is preceded by a woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (²A8v), Triumphus Pudicitie (EE5v), Mortis (GG1v), Fame (II2v), Temporis (QQ1v), Eternitatis (RR3r)

    Filelfo's commentary was first published in 1476.

    The commentary attributed to Antonio da Tempo was first issued in 1477.


    Publication:
    Impressum Venetiis : per Gregorium de gregoriis sumptibus Egregii viti Domini Bernardini de tridino, MDVIII. [1508]
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