Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1545

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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 1545
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1551
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Il Petrarca (Il Petrarca corretto da m. Lodovco Dolce, et alla sva integrita ridotto. | Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi | Triumphi)
Agent
  • 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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    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568)
    Role
    • Editor
    Original form
    • Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Domenico Giglio (imprimeur, 15..-15..)
    Role
    • Printer
    Original form
    • Giglio, Domenico, fl. 1537-1567
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944)
    Role
    • Former owner
    Original form
    • Bullock, Walter Llewellyn, 1890-1944
    Biblissima authority file
Description
  • Extent:
    173, [7] leaves, ill., 13 cm. (12mo) Leaf height: 123 mm, width: 70 mm.
    Binding:

    Limp parchment wrappers; two additional parchment tags sewn on spine; sewing supports visible at front and rear hinges; MS inscription on spine: 1551 / Petrarca.


    Acquisition:

    Donated to the The University of Manchester by Hélène Louise Bullock, widow of Walter L. Bullock, Serena Professor of Italian, in 1944.


    Collation:
    Made up copy of the edition of 1551 (Rime) and the edition of 1553 (Trionfi).
    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:


    Foliation:

    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front pastedown: 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. 342949.


    Condition:
    Imperfect: wanting leaves 6, 7, 76, 81, 86, 88, 93 and 95.
    Additions:

    MS numbers on front fly-leaf recto and rear fly-leaf verso; MS letter 'G' on front fly-leaf recto; Italian MS note on verso of last free endpaper; the Babylonian sonnets (the three sonnets criticizing ecclesiastical corruption in the papal Curia in Avignone) on leaf 57 (sig. E9r-E9v) are crossed through in MS.


    Note(s):

    The date in the colophon & on the separate titlepage to the 'Trionfi' is 1553.

    Printer's device on the title-page.

    Each triumph is preceded by a rectangular-box woodcut: Amoris (M2r), Pudicitie (N1v), Mortis (N5r), Fame (N11r), Temporis (O6r), Eternitatis (O8v).

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

    Last two leaves blank.

    Signatures: A-K¹², L⁶, M-P¹², Q⁶.

    Petrarch's 'Sonetti et canzoni' and 'Trionfi' in italic type, edited by Ludovico Dolce.

    A close imitation of the Giolito-Dolce series of editions of 1547 & succeeding years, with the same preface and very similar woodcuts, the device being nearly a counterfeit.


    Publication:
    In Vinegia : Per Domenico Giglio Venetiano, 1551[-1553]
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