Accession number
PML 20974
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Object title
Incominciano li sonetti co[n] ca[n]zoni dello egregio poeta Misser Fra[n]cesco Petrarcha.
Published
Impressi in Venetia : per Piero de Zohane di quarengi Bergamascho, Nel .M.CCCCLXXXXIIII. Adi .xvii. Zugno [17 June 1494].
Description
[8], 1-cxxviii, i-ci, [1] : woodcut illustrations ; 31 cm
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf A1r).
First colophon (leaf q8v): Finit Petrarcha nuper summa dilige[n]tia a reverendo .P. ordinis minoru[m] magistro Gabriele bruno veneto terrae sanctae ministro emendatus anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxxxii. die .xii. Januarii.
Second colophon (leaf N5v): Finisse gli sonetti Misser Fra[n]cescho Petrarcha coreti & castigati p[er] me Hieronymo Centone Padovano. Impressi i[n] Venetia p[er] Piero de Zohane di quare[n]gi Bergamascho. Nel .M.CCCCLXXXXIIII. Adi .xvii. Zugno. Regnante lo inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico.
Printed in types i:108R and iv:86R.
Signatures, Part I: aa⁸; a-q⁸: 136 leaves, leaf aa1 blank; Part II: A-M⁸ N⁶: 102 leaves, leaf N6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Commentary to Trionfi by Bernardo Lapini da Siena and to Canzoniere by Franciscus Philelphus and Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Edited by Gabriel Bruno and Girolamo Centone.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 20.8 cm.
PML missing 2 leaves aa1 and N6 (blanks). PML copy with Part II bound first.
Trionfi with 4 full-page woodcuts.
First colophon (leaf q8v): Finit Petrarcha nuper summa dilige[n]tia a reverendo .P. ordinis minoru[m] magistro Gabriele bruno veneto terrae sanctae ministro emendatus anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxxxii. die .xii. Januarii.
Second colophon (leaf N5v): Finisse gli sonetti Misser Fra[n]cescho Petrarcha coreti & castigati p[er] me Hieronymo Centone Padovano. Impressi i[n] Venetia p[er] Piero de Zohane di quare[n]gi Bergamascho. Nel .M.CCCCLXXXXIIII. Adi .xvii. Zugno. Regnante lo inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico.
Printed in types i:108R and iv:86R.
Signatures, Part I: aa⁸; a-q⁸: 136 leaves, leaf aa1 blank; Part II: A-M⁸ N⁶: 102 leaves, leaf N6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Commentary to Trionfi by Bernardo Lapini da Siena and to Canzoniere by Franciscus Philelphus and Hieronymus Squarzaficus. Edited by Gabriel Bruno and Girolamo Centone.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 20.8 cm.
PML missing 2 leaves aa1 and N6 (blanks). PML copy with Part II bound first.
Trionfi with 4 full-page woodcuts.
Binding
17th/18th-century stiff vellum over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Trionfi e Canzoniere
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annoations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Large bookplate removed from front pastedown; Bernard Quaritch, cat. 353, no. 228, collation statement by F.S. Ferguson (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
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