[Canzoniere e Trionfi].

Accession number: 
PML 304
Author: 
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published: 
Venice : [Gabriele di Pietro], [not before 13 August] 1473.
Description: 
[188] leaves ; 25 x 17 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Colophons (leaf [15]/7v): "FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISS. CARMINUM AMORUM .FINIS."; (leaf [19]/4v): "FRANCISCI PETRARCAE POETAE EXCELLENTISSIMI TRIUMPHUS SEXTUS ET UTILIMUS DE ETERNITATE EXPLICIUNT M.CCCC.LXXIII. NICOLAO MARCELLO PRINCIPE REGNANTE IMPRESSUM FUIT HOC OPUS FOELICITER IN VENETIIS .FINIS."; (leaf [19]/9v): "EXPLICIUNT TRIUMPHI ET VITA PETRARCE."
Printed in Pietro's type 1:114R.
Collation: [1⁸ 2-19¹⁰]: 188 leaves, leaves [1]/8 and [19]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Includes Antonius de Padua, Vita di Petrarca (leaf [19]/6).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.3 x 15.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/8 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled red, straight grain morocco over paper boards (25.6 x 17 cm). Gilt-tooled edges and turn-ins. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. Printer identified as Jenson on gilt spine label.
Variant Title: 

Carminum armorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Modern illumination in Renaissance style on leaves [1]/1r and [2]/1r. Annotations: Some intials and a few marginal notations on leaves [4]/5-6.

Provenance: 
Giuseppe Molini (1772-1856), Florence, bookseller label (rear pastedown); Frederick Perkins (1780-1860), armorial bookplate with shelf mark "L/E Fol. 140" (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 15 July 1889, lot 1469; Bernard Quaritch, Monuments of Typography, cat. 175, 1897, lot 255 for £45 (clipping pasted to rear fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 303, 2/2/1900 and price code: rl/wy/- (front fly leaf verso); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Illuminations (Provenance)
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Department: 
Printed Books