Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1447
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- 1447
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- 1549
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- Italian
- Title
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- La settima lettione di m[esser] Pietro Orsilago da Pisa sopra il sonetto del Petrarca Passa la nave mia colma d’oblio (Passa la nave mia colma d'oblio.)
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- Pietro Orsilago
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- Author
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- Orsilago, Pietro.
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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:
[26] leaves, 16 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 148 mm, width: 97 mm.
Binding:
Contemporary[?] limp parchment binding; sewing supports visible on front and back covers; MS inscription on spine: Set:m Let:e di Pietro Orsilago da Pisa.
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 pastedown: Walter L. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); accession no. 343868.
[Nineteenth-century?] MS notes from bookseller catalogues with prices on front pastedown; MS citation from Moreni, Annali della tipografia Torrentino, 1819, initialled by Walter Llewellyn Bullock on first fly-leaf recto; MS note concerning Giorgio Vasari in same hand underneath.
Note(s):
Printed by Lorenzo Torrentino (see Moreni, D. Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino, p. 35-36).
Printer's device on the titlepage.
Petrarch’s poem in italic type and lecture in roman type; no 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.
Final leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-B⁸, C¹⁰.
It is recorded in cod. 42, class. IX, Magliabechiano (see Moreni: Annali della tipografia Torrentino, 1819, p. 57-59) that Orsilago read, in all, nine discourses on Petrarch verse in the Accademia fiorentina. The six preceding discourses were not published.
Petrarch's poem 'Passa la nave mia colma d'oblio' in italic type and commentary in roman type; the commentary follows each verse of the poem.
Publication:
In Firenze : [Lorenzo Torrentino], MDXLIX. [1549]
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