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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1547

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • 1547
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1553
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • Il Petrarcha con l'espositione di m. Giouanni Andrea Gesualdo, nuouamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto, con nuoua tauola di tutte le cose degne di memoria, che in essa espositione si contengono, & ornato di figure. (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Trionfi. | Rime.)
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
    • Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo (1496-155.)
    Original form
    • Gesualdo, Giovanni Andrea, active 16th century.
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Enea Vico (1523-1567)
    Role
    • Engraver
    Original form
    • Vico, Enea, 1523-1567
    Biblissima authority file
  • Preferred form
    • Venise. Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & fratelli
    Role
    • Printer
    Original form
    • Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & fratelli
    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:
    [52], 667 [i.e. 683] p., ill., 23 cm. (4to) Leaf height: 216 mm, width: 150 mm.
    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):
    Noves, Laura de, 1308?-1348.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front fly-leaf recto: John Mayne / 1817; MS inscription on front paste-down: Bibliotheca Browniana / No:; MS inscription on front paste-down: 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. 343248.


    Additions:

    Faces of figures in woodcut illustrating 'Eternitatis' (sig. VV8v) crossed out in MS.


    Note(s):

    Signatures: A-Z⁸, AA-MM⁸, NN², OO-VV⁸, XX⁴.

    Imprint from the colophon.

    Title-page introducing the second part of the book on page 549: I Trionfi del Petrarca colla spositione di messer Giouanni Andrea Gesualdo da Traetto. Alla Illustriss. signora donna Susanna di Gonzaga la signora Contessa di Colisano. In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli. M DLIII..

    Woodcut portrait of Petrarch and Laura on *4v, map of Vaucluse on ***1r. Each triumph is preceded by a rectangular-box woodcut: Amoris (OO4r), Pudicitie (RR1r), Mortis (RR7r), Fame (SS7v), Temporis (VV5r), Eternitatis (VV8v)

    Reprinted from the previous Gesualdo editions (1533, 1541) without the giunta of five sonnets, with the illustrations of the Vellutello editions from the Giolito press, the addition of an index to the commentary, and the Sonetto sopra le sacre ceneri.

    Petrarch’s poems and commentary in italic type; printed numbering; Petrarch’s poems printed with one verse per line on left, followed by commentary printed next to it in the same line and then distributed across the page beneath them, and prose texts.


    Publication:
    In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, M D LIII. [1553]
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