Accession number
PML 23220
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Published
Gedruckt zů Augspurg : durch Heynrich Steyner, M.D.XXXII [1532].
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
At head of title: Franciscus Petrarcha.
Title printed in red and black.
Colophon: Gedruckt und volendet in der keyserlichen statt Augspurg, durch Heynrichen Steyner, am ix. tag Februarii, im jar M.D.XXXII. (leaf Ggg4r).
Signatures:⁶ 1, 2, 3, 4>⁶, A-Z⁶ a⁶; ²a⁶ b⁴, Aa-Zz⁶ Aaa-Fff⁶ Ggg⁴: 344 leaves (total). Leaf b2 signed a2.
A translation of his De remediis utriusque fortunae. Book 1 translated by Peter Stahel; book 2 by Georgius Spalatinus.
Large woodcut of the wheel of fortune on t.p.
Includes a verse foreword by Sebastian Brant.
The illustrations were long attributed to Hans Burgkmair and later to Hans Weiditz; but Th. Musper (Die Holzschnitte des Petrarkmeisters, 1927) has convincingly shown that they cannot be by either. The identity of the artist remains unknown; for a resumé of the voluminous literature on the subject, see Thieme-Becker, XXXVII, 270. Musper, Holzschnitte des Petrarkameisters, L 124. Scheidig, W. Die Holzschnitte des Petrarca-Meisters. Berlin, 1955.
Title printed in red and black.
Colophon: Gedruckt und volendet in der keyserlichen statt Augspurg, durch Heynrichen Steyner, am ix. tag Februarii, im jar M.D.XXXII. (leaf Ggg4r).
Signatures:
A translation of his De remediis utriusque fortunae. Book 1 translated by Peter Stahel; book 2 by Georgius Spalatinus.
Large woodcut of the wheel of fortune on t.p.
Includes a verse foreword by Sebastian Brant.
The illustrations were long attributed to Hans Burgkmair and later to Hans Weiditz; but Th. Musper (Die Holzschnitte des Petrarkmeisters, 1927) has convincingly shown that they cannot be by either. The identity of the artist remains unknown; for a resumé of the voluminous literature on the subject, see Thieme-Becker, XXXVII, 270. Musper, Holzschnitte des Petrarkameisters, L 124. Scheidig, W. Die Holzschnitte des Petrarca-Meisters. Berlin, 1955.
Description
2 parts in 1 ([12], CXLIIII; [10], CLXXVIII leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol)
Provenance
Johannes Fra[???], early inscriptions (leaf Ggg4v); Gerhart Güttler (1889-1966), bull's head stamp (front endleaf 1 verso)Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Baer & Co., Dec. 1925.
Binding
20th-century German, blind- and gilt-tooled red calf by P.A. Demeter, Hellerau.
Classification
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