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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1531

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 1531
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Date
  • 1519
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Li sonetti, canzone, triumphi del Petrarcha (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi. | Triumphi.)
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Description
  • Extent:
    158, [6], 184 leaves, ill. (woodcuts), 4°. Leaf height: mm, width: mm.
    Binding:

    Nineteenth-century[?] paper over boards with leather spine and corners; waste print material in Italian visible on spine; gilt direct-lettered on spine: Petrarca / Rime.


    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


    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front_endpaper_[recto]: Charles de[?] [illegible]; MS inscription on front paste-down: Walter L. Bullock; accession no. 343966.


    Additions:

    Some MS annotations and underlining in a sixteenth-century[?] hand throughout.


    Note(s):

    Signatures: A-T⁸, V⁶, †⁶, AA-ZZ⁸

    A reprint of the Stagnino edition of 1513.

    The Trionfi, with separate foliation, has special title page: Triomphi di Meser Francesco Petrarcha con la loro optima spositione.

    The colophon to part 1 bears the name of Gregorio; that to part 2 the name of Stagnino.

    Seven woodcuts: Opposite first page of text (A3v) (Petrarch sitting under a tree, on his left a knight [King Robert of Anjou?] places a laurel crown on his head). Each triumph is preceded by a full-page woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (†6v), Pudicitie (FF8v), Mortis (HH8v), Fame (LL5v), Temporis (VV6v), Eternitatis (YY3v).

    Petrarch’s poems and commentary in italic type; printed numbering; most of Petrarch’s poems set on left (or 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 (or viceversa).

    With the commentaries of F. Filefo, G. Squarciafico & A. da Tempo on the "sonetti & canzoni" and with Lapini's commentary on the "trionfi" which are edited by Marsiglio Umbro.


    Publication:
    Venesia : per G. de Grigorij : per Meser Bernardino Stagnino, M.D.XIX. [1519]
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