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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Aldine Collection, 21527

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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 21527
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Date
  • 1522
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Il Petrarcha.. (Sonnetti et canzoni di Messer Francesco Petrarcha in vita di Madonna Laura | Sonnetti et canzoni di Messer Francesco Petrarcha in vita di Madonna Lavra | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Canzoniere e trionfi | Trionfi. | Triumphi.)
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  • Preferred form
    • Pétrarque (1304-1374)
    Role
    • Author
    Original form
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
    Other form
    • Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)
    • Francesco Petrarca
    • Petrarca, Francesco
    • PETRARCHA (Franciscus)
    • Franciscus Petrarcha
    • Francesco Petrarcha
    • Pétrarque
    • PETRARQUE
    • Pétrarque (1304-1374)
    • Petrarque, François
    • PETRARQUE (François)
    • Franciscus Petrarca
    • Pétarque
    • François Pétrarque
    • FRANCISCUS PETRARCHA
    • Pétrarque (François)
    • Francisci Petrarche
    • Pétrarque 1304-1374
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
    • Author: Petrarca, Francesco
    • Former possessor: Petrarca, Francesco
    • Annotator: Petrarca, Francesco
    • Petrarch
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, poet
    • Petrarcha
    • Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Triumphus Fame
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Trionfo della fama
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Trionfo della fama.
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. La gola, e 'l sonno, e l'ociose piume.
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. In qual parte del cielo, in qual idea ...
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. In quella parte dov'amor mi sprona.
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.
    • Francesco Pétrarque (1304-1374)
    • Petrarca
    • Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 > , co-autor
    • Francesco Petrarca - 1304 - 1374 - auteur
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    • Gregorio De Gregori (imprimeur-libraire, 14..-15..)
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    • Printer
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    • Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528
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    • Gregorius de Gregoriis
    • Gregori, Gregorio de', fl. 1480-1528
    • Grigorij, G. de
    • Gregoriis, Gregorius, (Venecia)
    • Gregori, Gregorio de, 1496-1527 > , impr.
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    • Andrea Torresano (1451-1529)
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    • Torresano, Andreas, de Asula, 1451-1529
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    • Andreas Torresanus de Asula
    • Torresano, Andrea, (Venecia)
    • Torresano, Andrea, filhos, 1451-1528 > , ed. com.
    • Torresano d'Asola, Andrea, 1479-1529 > , ed. com.
    • Torresano, Andrea, filhos, 1451-1528 > , impr.
    • Andrea Torresani
    • Torresano d'Asola, Andrea, 1479-1529 > , impr.
    • Torresano, Andrea
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    • Vincenzo Maria Carafa (1739-1814)
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    Original form
    • Carafa, Vincenzo Maria, principe di Roccella, 1739-1814
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    • George John Spencer (1758-1834)
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    • Former owner
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    • Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834
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    • Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, cartographer.
    • George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758-1834
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    • Noël Le Mire (1724-1800)
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    • Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801
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Description
  • Extent:
    183, [25] leaves, 16 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 142 mm, width: 96 mm.
    Binding:

    Late eighteenth-century full goatskin; triple gilt fillet and fleurons at corners to form a border; board edges and turn-ins gilt rolled; watered silk end-papers; parchment end-papers either side of text; gilt tools in spine compartments; gilt-lettered onto leather spine label in second compartment: Il / Petrarch; gilt monogram: [MR?] stamped at base of spine; all edges gilt; nineteenth-century gilt monogram of The John Rylands Library (JR in roundel) stamped on front cover.


    Decoration:

    Late eighteenth-century leaf bound before title-page: recto blank; on verso are two small engraved portraits of Petrarch and Laura: [Dortu del.?] N Le Mire sculp. (Noël, le Mire, 1724-1801) l'an 2e.


    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.; Piracies (Publishing)
    Abstract:

    Counterfeit of the third Aldine edition of July 1521, edited by Pietro Bembo; with Aldus's letter to readers. No imprint or printer's device. Possibly printed in Venice by Gregorio de Gregori ca. 1522

    The John Rylands Library possesses three copies of this edition, one on parchment and two on paper.


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Printed on paper.
    Provenance:

    On front fly-leaf verso: armorial bookplate of The John Rylands Library 1894; oval leather label: E Bibliotheca Spenceriana; from the collection of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).

    MS note in an unknown hand on second front free end-paper recto: This is a Venetian counterfeit / and very rare. / Renouard Tom.II p.321 collated & perfect. / On comparing this with the / Dante of Alex Paganini / (Ren. Tom.II p.321) I have / no doubt of its having / issued from the same press. [i.e. Alessadro dei Paganini, active 1513-1538].


    Condition:
    Imperfect: wanting blank leaves sig. z8 and B8, and all of gathering C (with index).
    Additions:

    MS manicule on sig. a8v.


    Note(s):

    Counterfeit of the Aldine edition of July 1521; with Aldus's letter to readers. No imprint or printer's device. Possibly printed in Venice by Gregorio de Gregori ca. 1522; see Renouard, EDIT 16 and USTC.

    No colophon.

    Signatures: a-z⁸, A-C⁸. (z8 and B8 blank; s7 blank except for foliation (143))

    Includes index.

    Title-page verso: Sonnetti et canzoni di Messer Francesco Petrarcha in vita di Madonna Laura.

    Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; printed numbering.

    Capital spaces, with guide letters.


    Publication:
    [S.l. : s.n., ca. 1522]
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