Incomincia il libro degli homini famosi compillato per lo inclyto poeta Miser Francisco Petrarca ad instancia di Miser Francisco da Carrara signore di Padua cominciando a Romulo primo re di Roma.

Title from caption in capital on leaf [a]1r.
Imprint from verse colophon on leaf [pi]1v: Illustres opere hoc uiros perire / Francisci ingenium uetat Petrachæ [sic] / Non scripto calamo anseris ue penna / Antiquarius istud aere Felix / Impressit : fuit Innocens Ziletus / Adiutor sociusq[ue] rure Polliano / Verona ad lapidem iacente quartum / :M:C:C:C:C:L X X VI ::: / KL : OCTOBRIS.
Printed in Antiquarius and Ziletus's type 1:115R.
Signatures (stamped): [pi⁴ a¹⁰ b⁸] c-k⁸ l-m⁶ o-p⁸ s⁸ ss⁸ S-V⁸ X-Y⁶ R[um]⁶ q-x⁸ & ⁸ Z¹⁰ z¹⁰: 240 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
For variant setting of leaf [a1] recto, see BM 15th cent., VII, 1073.
Translated from Latin into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani and dedicated to Nicolò III d'Este.
Thirty-five woodcut borders, whose design is attributable to Felice Feliciano (see Piero Scapecchi in L. Armstrong, P. Scapecchi, F. Toniolo, Gli incunaboli della biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile di Padova, Padova, 2008, p. 88, no. 327), 31 as full-page strapwork on a double frame and 3 as branchwork on treble frame below letterpress on leaves c1 verso, d2 verso and &5 recto.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21.3 cm.