Accession number
PML 5077
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published
In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, MDXXXXVII [1547]
Credit line
Irwin collection,
Description
[8], 215, [1] leaves : illustrations, map. ; 23 cm (4to in 8s)
Notes
Includes Petrarch's Sonetti e canzoni and his Triomphi.
Engraved title, & prelims. 8ff; text, 216 numbered leaves; map on ... verso, and initials & ill. in Triomphi.
Signatures: *⁸ A-2D⁸.
Woodcuts: architectural title page featuring two female fi
Engraved title, & prelims. 8ff; text, 216 numbered leaves; map on ... verso, and initials & ill. in Triomphi.
Signatures: *⁸ A-2D⁸.
Woodcuts: architectural title page featuring two female fi
Binding
16th-century Italian (Venice?) gold tooled brown morocco over paper boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with name Leonora Faletta on covers; rebacked/repaired. This binding is reproduced in Libri, Monuments inedits, 1862.
Provenance
Leonora Faletta (perhaps the poet Leonora Ravoira Falletti, active 1552), gold-tooled name on covers; Guillaume Libri (1803-1869), his sale, Sotheby's, 25 July 1862, lot 693; Domingo del Monte (1804-1853), Museo del Montino bookplate, sale: Leavitt & Co.
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