[Trionfi e Canzoniere].

Accession number: 
PML 21943.1-2
Author: 
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published: 
Venice : Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1478.
Description: 
[196, 90] leaves ; 26.5 x 19.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes: 

Collation, part I (Trionfi): a¹⁰ b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f¹⁰ g⁸ h-i⁶ I⁸ k⁸ l-o⁶/⁸ p-s⁶ t¹⁰ aa⁸ bb-ff⁶ gg¹⁰: 196 leaves, leaves a1 and gg10 blank; part II (Canzoniere): a⁸ b⁶ c⁸ d-f⁶ g⁸ h-o⁶: 90 leaves.
Colophon, part I (leaf gg9r): Finisse il co[m]me[n]to deli triumphi del Petrarcha composto per il p[re]stantissimo ph[ilosoph]o chiamato messer Bernardo da Sena imp[re]sso nella inclita citta da Venexia p[er] Theodo[rum] de Reynsburch et Reynaldu[m] de Novimagio compagni. nelli anni del signore .M.cccc.lxxviii. adi .vi. del mese de Febraro.
Colophon, part II (leaf o6r): Finisse il commento deli sonetti et cançone del Petrarcha composto per el prestantissimo oratore et poeta messer Francesco Philelpho: Impresso nella inclita citta de Venexia: per Theodorum de Reynsburch et Reynaldum de novimagio Todeschi et compagni. nelli anni del signore .M.cccc.lxxvlii. adi .xxx. março.
Commentary on the Trionfi by Bernardo Lapini da Siena, on the Canzoniere by Franciscus Philelphus.
GW questions the bibliographic unity of the two parts (as of Sept. 2017).
In two parts dated: I) 6 Feb. 1478; II) 30 Mar. 1478. BMC describes variant settings in the Trionfi.
Incipit to part I (leaf a2r): [A]D Illustrissimum Mutine Ducem Divu[m] Borsium Estensem Bernardi Glicini Medicine ac philosophie discipuli in triomphoru[m] CL. P. Fra. Petrarce expositio Incipit.
Incipit to part II (leaf a1r): [P]Rohemio del prestante Oratore et Poeta Messer Francesco Phililpho al Illustrissimo et invictissimo principe Philippo Maria Anglo Duca de Milano circa la interpretatio[n]e per lui sopra gli sonetti et cançone de Messer Fra[n]cesco Petrarcha facta.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.2 x 18 cm, trimmed.
PML copy with part II (Canzoniere) bound first.
Printed in type 1:77G.
Title from ISTC.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin over (original?) wooden boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges. Former rear vellum fly leaf now bound at front before part II.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title for ChL872: Sonetti e canzoni

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary Italian verse inscriptions (vellum front fly leaf and part II, leaf o6v).

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Davis & Orioli, Dec. 1922.
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