Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1500

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  • 1500
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Date
  • 1560
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Nuouo Petrarca di M. Lodouico Paterno
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Description
  • Extent:
    [16], 624 [i.e. 632], [24] p., ill., 15 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 146 mm, width: 98 mm.
    Binding:

    16th century(?) calf skin over boards; sewing supports visible in front and rear hinges; spine in six compartments with decorative gilt tooling; red leather label on spine with gilt direct lettering: Paterno / Nuovo Petrarca; red speckling on edges.


    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.; Italian poetry -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800.
    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front paste-down: Walter L. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944).


    Additions:

    Some MS marks around publication statement on title-page; MS note on front paste-down: Probably this title was an / afterthought as the work / is referred to as Rime in the dedication.


    Note(s):

    Signatures: a⁸ A-Ss⁸.

    Numbers 569-576 repeated in pagination.

    Also issued by the same publisher with the title: Rime di M. Lodovico Paterno; differs from Rime di Lodovico Paterno only in the first line of the title page, and in the woodcut initial at the beginning of the text of A i Lettori by Mario degli Andini in place of the guide letter in Rime.

    Dedication to "Sereniss. Rè Catolico il gran Filippo d'Austria" by Lelio Fortunato; "A i lettori" by Mario degli Andini.

    Each Triumph begins with a woodcut.


    Publication:
    In Venetia : appresso Gioan' Andrea Valvassori, M D L X [1560]
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