Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Walter L. Bullock Book Collection, 1312

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  • 1312
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Date
  • 1552
Language
  • Italian
Title
  • I sonetti, le canzoni, et i triomphi di m. Laura in risposta di m. Francesco Petrarcha per le sue rime in uita, et dopo la morte di lei (Canzoniere e trionfi | Rerum vulgarium fragmenta | Triumphi.)
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  • Extent:
    179 [i.e. 174], [8] leaves, ill., port., 16 cm. (8vo) Leaf height: 154 mm, width: 102 mm.
    Binding:

    Contemporary[?] parchment over boards; sewing supports visible at front and rear hinges; direct-lettered MS across head of spine: P. Miero / [earlier hand?] Colonna / Risp. alle / Rime del / Petr.


    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.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Italian poetry -- 14th century -- Early works to 1800.
    Abstract:


    Format:
    Codex
    Provenance:

    MS inscription on front pastedown: Walter L. Bullock; from the library of Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944); accession no. 343717.


    Additions:

    Crossed out MS note on the title-page; direct-lettered MS on lower edge: Risposta Al Petrarca; later MS notes in pencil on front fly-leaf recto: [1] [attr. to / P.A. Miero], [2] in Italian concerning woodcut portrait; later MS note in pencil on rear paste-down: [illegible] 7, 20, / 68v.


    Note(s):

    Written by Stefano Colonna (see Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime, t. II, 1852, p. 70 and NUC, v. 116, p. 431).

    Printer's device on the titlepage and on the verso of the colophon.

    Dedication to Vittoria Farnese, wife of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, written by Pietro Antonio Miero.

    The colophon reads: In Vinegia per Comin da Trino di Monferrato l'anno M. D. LII.

    Signatures: A-Z⁸ (Z7-8 blank).

    Woodcut portrait on the verso of the titlepage.


    Publication:
    [In Vinegia] : A San Luca al segno del diamante, M. D. LII. [1552].
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