Accession number
PML 28074
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Object title
Epistole familiares.
Published
Venice : Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 13 September 1492.
Description
[7], 2-117, [1] leaves ; 23 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1931.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): Francisci Pet. Epistole Familiares.
Colophon (leaf p5v): Impresso in Urbe Venetiarum operi per Johannem & Gregorium de Gregoriis Fratres foelix imponitur finis. Castigatum est aute[m] qua fieri potuit diligentia a Sebastia[n]o Manilio Romano Civi: Viro haud illitterato. Humanae restaurationis anno Millesimo.cccc.lxxxxii. Idibus septe[m]bris: Augustino Barbadico Serenissimo Venetiaru[m] Principe rempublicam tenente. [Printer's device, leaf p6r].
Printed in Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis's type 23:82Rb.
Collation: [1]⁶; a-o⁸ p⁶: 124 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto
Edited by Sebastianus Manilius.
Incipit (leaf a1r): A elimatissimi poetae: atque oratoris non inculti: Francisci Petrarchae Aretini Epistolarum de rebus familiaribus...
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.6 x 15.7 cm.
Colophon (leaf p5v): Impresso in Urbe Venetiarum operi per Johannem & Gregorium de Gregoriis Fratres foelix imponitur finis. Castigatum est aute[m] qua fieri potuit diligentia a Sebastia[n]o Manilio Romano Civi: Viro haud illitterato. Humanae restaurationis anno Millesimo.cccc.lxxxxii. Idibus septe[m]bris: Augustino Barbadico Serenissimo Venetiaru[m] Principe rempublicam tenente. [Printer's device, leaf p6r].
Printed in Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis's type 23:82Rb.
Collation: [1]⁶; a-o⁸ p⁶: 124 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto
Edited by Sebastianus Manilius.
Incipit (leaf a1r): A elimatissimi poetae: atque oratoris non inculti: Francisci Petrarchae Aretini Epistolarum de rebus familiaribus...
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.6 x 15.7 cm.
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (23 x 16.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Fünfblättrige Rose I workshop in Nuremberg (EBDB w000356/Kyriss 114), active ca. 1481-98; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 2 clasps and bosses, wanting. Manuscript title label on front board, by Schedel.
Variant title
Epistolae familiares
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated by Hartmann Schedel with alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks, red underlining and foliation; blue initial Q (Koberger workshop style) on blind-stamped gold ground with a red and green frame (leaf a1r). Annotations: A few manicules, but no marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), inscriptions (front pastedown and leaf p5v), coat of arms (leaf a1r), and his rubrication and foliation throughout; Munich, Hofbibliothek, engraved bookplates, 17th century (previously on front pastedown, now on first and second front fly leaves) and ownership stamps, 19th century (leaves [1]/1r and p5v); Julien Felix, of Rouen, booklabel (rear pastedown), see Bibliothèque de M. Edouard Pelay, Paris, 1923-24; Edouard Pelay (1842-1921), of Rouen, bookplate (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1931.
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