Francisci Petrarcæ poetæ oratoris[que] clarissimi De remediis utrius[que] fortunæ: ad Azonem. Liber primus. Incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 20494
Author: 
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published: 
Impressum Cremonæ : Bernardini de misintis Papie[n]sis ac Cæsaris Parmensis sociorum diligenti opera, Anno Incarnationis d[omi]nice .1492. die. 17. mensis Nouembris [17 November 1492]
Description: 
[166] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

44 lines, 222 x 126 mm. Capital spaces, with guide-letters, except for 8-line woodcut capital C on a2r.
Edited by Nicolaus Lucarus.
Imprint from colophon, with printers' woodcut device, leaf C7v, reads in full: "Accipe tandem candidissime lector Diuinum Francisci Petrarcæ: opus Nicolai lugari industria sollerti Nitidisimu[m]: Bernardini de misintis Papie[n]sis ac Cæsaris Parmensis sociorum diligenti opera. Impressum Cremonæ. Anno Incarnationis d[omi]nice .1492. die. 17. mensis Nouembris."
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.4 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and C8 (blanks).
Printed in Misintis and Parmensis's type 1:100R.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-b⁸ c-z⁶ A-B⁶ C⁸: 166 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and C8 blank.
Title from incipit, leaf a2r.

Binding: 
18th-century quarter calf with mottled paper sides over paper boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title: 

Heading of the table, leaf [1]/2r: Tabula Rubricarum præcedentis libri. &c.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations and NB marks in text. Bibliographic inscription (front fly leaf recto).

Provenance: 
Domenico Bonamini (1737-1804), inscription: "Biblioteca di Domenico Bonaminius," 18th century (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1919.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Department: 
Printed Books