Manchester. The John Rylands Library, David Lloyd Roberts Book Collection, R51247
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- Manchester Digital Collections
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- The John Rylands Library
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- R51247
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- Date
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- 1555
- Language
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- Italian
- Title
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- Lettioni fatte da Giouan Battista Gelli, nella Accademia Fiorentina, sopra varij luoghi di Dante & del Petrarca.. (Lettioni fatte da Giovan Battista Gelli, nella Accademia Fiorentina, sopra varij luoghi di Dante & del Petrarca | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Canzoniere e trionfi)
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- Giambattista Gelli (1498-1563)
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- Author
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- Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 1498-1563.
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- Lorenzo Torrentino (1500?-1563)
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- Printer
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- Torrentino, Lorenzo, -1563
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- David Lloyd Roberts (1835-1920)
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- Former owner
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- Roberts, David Lloyd, 1834-1920
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- Description
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- Extent:
486, [2] p., 18 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 164 mm, width: 101 mm.
Binding:
Sixteenth-century[?] full limp parchment; Yapp edges; sewing supports visible at joints; remains of parchment ties on front and rear covers; direct-lettered in early MS upwards on spine: Lettionj di Gio bat[??]; direct-lettered in MS across head of spine in [later?], smaller script: Gelli sopra / Dante / e Petrarca; remains of paper label at foot of spine; direct-lettered in later MS on lower fore-edge: G.A.S.; some manuscript waste in Latin visible at front hinge.
Acquisition:
Part of the Lloyd Roberts collection, bequeathed to the John Rylands Library by David Lloyd Roberts in 1920
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):
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
Abstract:
Format:
Codex
Material:
Printed on paper.
Provenance:
Small unidentified inkstamp of a winged figure on p.3.
Early MS [ownership?] inscription on front fly-leaf recto, crossed through, and now illegible.
From the library of David Lloyd Roberts (1834-1920).
Note(s):
Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Gg⁸, Hh⁴.
Pages 368-384 are incorrectly numbered 366-382.
Petrarch’s poem in italic type and lecture in roman type; 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.
Decorated initials.
Errata on recto of final leaf.
Printer's device (Medici coat of arms beneath a crown) on title-page.
No printer statement. Printer identified from device as Lorenzo Torrentino by EDIT 16 and Moreni.
Publication:
In Firenze. : [s.n.], MDLV. [1555]
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- Florence (Tuscany, Italy)
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- Italy Florence.
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- Florence
- Florence (?)
- Florence,
- Florencia
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- Italy, Florence
- [Florence]
- Mantua and Florence
- Florence ?
- Firenze (IT)
- Firenze
- [Florença,
- [Florence
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