[Canzoniere e trionfi].

Accession number:

PML 26150

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Published:

In urbe patauina liber absolutus est foeliciter. : Bar. de Valde. patauus. F.F. Martinus de septem arboribus Prutenus., M. CCCC. LXXII. Die VI. Novenbirs. [6 November 1472]

Description:

[190] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1929.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit of the Rime (Canzoniere), leaf [2]/1r: [V]oi chascoltate in rime sparse il suono di quei sospiri ondio nutriua il core.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [20]/5r.
Printed in type 2:113R.
Signatures: [1⁸; 2-14¹° 15⁸; 16-18¹° 19⁸; 20⁶]: 190 leaves, leaves [19]/8 and [20]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Includes: Francesco Petrarca: Trionfi ([p1r]-[s7v]/leaves [147r]-[183v]); Leonardo Bruni, Aretinus: Vita di Petrarca ([t1r]-[t4r]/leaves [185r]-[188r]). For a full breakdown of contents, see Bodleian 15th Cent. P-152.
With alphabetical list of contents of the Rime ([pi1r]-[pi8r]/ leaves [1r]-[8r]) and list of contents of theTrionfi ([pi8r]/leaf [8r]).
Initial spaces, nearly all with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [19]/8 and [20]/6 (blanks).

Binding:

19th-century French blind- and gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco (in the style of Roger Payne or Bozerian) over paper boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated initial and foliate border, with bust of Petrarch in laurel wreath at bottom, probably modern/19th century (leaf [2]/1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., Jan. 1929.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books