Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Special Collections, 11166

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The John Rylands Library
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  • 11166
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Date
  • 1545
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Il Petrarcha (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi. | Triumphi.)
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Description
  • Extent:
    [8], 197, [7] leaves, ill., map, 23 cm. (4°) Leaf height: 217 mm, width: 152 mm.
    Binding:

    Eighteenth-century[?] yellow goat skin over boards; gilt-stamped arms of the Comte d'Hoym on front and rear cover; gilt double-fillet border with fleurons in corners; spine in six compartments with gilt-stamped decoration; gilt-stamped spine label: Il / Petrarcha / di / Velutello; marbled endpapers;gilt edges.


    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


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    Provenance:

    Armorial bookplate on front paste-down: The John Rylands Library 1894.


    Note(s):

    The second of seven editions of the Vellutello commentary published by Gabriel Giolito.

    Signatures: A-Z⁸, AA-CC⁸, ²D⁴.

    Petrarch’s poems in italic type and commentary in roman type; printed numbering; most of Petrarch’s poems set on left 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.

    With a preface by L. Domenichi.

    With one full-page woodcut (map), one small woodcut (portrait), woodcut initials, and title-page with architectural frame. Each triumph is preceded by a rectangular-box woodcut: Triumphus Amoris (X2r), Pudicitie (Z3r), Mortis (Z7r), Fame (AA5r), Temporis (BB8v), Eternitatis (CC3r)


    Publication:
    Vinegia : appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, MDXXXV. [1545]
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