Francisci petrarche de vita solitaria

Accession number: 
PML 42.2
Author: 
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [The R-printer (Adolf Rusch)], [not after 1473]
Description: 
[89] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Printed in Rusch's type 1:103R.
Copy in Munich BSB (2 Inc.s.a. 967) rubricated in 1473.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7¹⁰(+8*) 8-9⁸ 10⁶]: 89 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Sometimes treated as part of the same edition as Petrarca, Secretum de contemptu mundi (CIBN P-165; see also ISTC ip00412000/ip00417000 and Bod-inc P-171).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.2 cm.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes, underlining of authorities; largely washed. Same rubrication as in Secretum de contemptu mundi (ChL 72).

Provenance: 
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), coat of arms with motto "recte faciendo securus" and his typical pasted-in cut outs of woodcuts and engravings (front pastedown and fourth fly recto), his shelf mark: C 113, 113 crossed out and replaced with 32 (bottom of fourth fly leaf recto); [his sales, Sotheby's, 31 July 1871, and 11 June 1900? (not in 1826 sale)]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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