[Trionfi e Canzoniere].

Accession number:

PML 341

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Published:

[Venice] : Bernardino da Novaranelli, MCCCCLXXXVIII [1488].

Description:

149, [1]; 112 leaves : illustrated (woodcuts in part I) ; (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon to part I, Trionfi (leaf t5v): Finisse il commento delli triumphi del Petrarcha composto per il prestantissimo philosopho Misser Bernardo de monte illicinio da Siena. Impresso in Venitia con gra[n]de diligentia per Bernardino da Novaranelli anni del nostro signore .M.CCCCLXXXVIII. adi .xviii. Aprile.
Colophon to part II, Canzoniere (leaf O8r): Finisse gli sonetti di Messer Francesco Petrarcha impressi in Venesia per Bernardino da novaranelli anni Mccclxxxviii. a di .xii zugno. Imperante il Serenissimo Augustino barbadico.
In two parts, dated: I) 18 April 1488; II) 12 June 1488.
Printed in Rizus's types 6:112R and 7:78R.
Collation, part I: a-s⁸ t⁶: 150 leaves, leaf t6 blank; part II: A-O⁸: 112 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
6 full-page woodcuts in Trionfi.
Commentary by Bernardo Lapini da Siena in Trionfi and Franciscus Philelphus and Hieronymus Squarzaficus in Canzoniere.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.1 x 21.2 cm., trimmed.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (32 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Checklist title for ChL938: Sonetti e canzoni

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated initials (Venice) with floral border extensions at each book, woodcuts hand painted (but possibly later or modern--is not the same hand/style as the initials); minor initials unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary/16th-century inscriptions, faded/abraded (leaf O8v).

Provenance:

Unidentified Italian armorial: red crescent, damaged? (leaf a4r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 228, 19/6/96 (preserved from former binding, rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Paste papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books