Francisci Petrarci Epistole familiares

Description

Signatures: [*]⁶ a-o⁸ p⁶.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on p5v reads: Impresso in Vrbe Venetiarum operi per Iohannem & Gregorium de Gregoriis Fratres foelix imponitur finis. Castigatum est aute[m] qua fieri potuit diligentia a Sebastia[n]o Manilio Romano Ciui: Viro haud illitterato.Humanæ restaurationis anno Millesimo.cccc.lxxxxii. Idibus septe[m]bris: Augustino Barbadico Serenissimo Venetiaru[m] Principe rempublicam tenente.


Edited by Sebastiano Manilio.


Printed with 39 long lines and a headline to a full page.


From a1r the leaf numbers 1 to 117 are printed at the top right of rectos.


Signature k4 is signed k3.


Printed headlines and marginalia.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Printer's mark with the monogram ZG on p6r.


Includes register.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00399000.


Indexed in: Goff P-399.

Features

Very occasional marginal annotations and underlinings in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century.


Notes in black ink manuscript, late nineteenth-century, on the verso of the front pastedown giving details of the edition.


The major initial on a1r is supplied and decorated in red, blue and green with pen ornamentation in red extending up and down the inner margin.


Several other major initials supplied and decorated in red and blue.


Other initials supplied alternately in red and blue.


Bindings


Eighteenth-century binding of full pale brown calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of triple fillets. The smooth spine is divided into panels with gold-tooled horizontal fillets decorated with stylised foliage. In the second panel is a pared green leather lettering piece on which are gold-tooled the words: Petrach Epistol - Venet 1492. Each of the other panels are gold-tooled with a spray of flowers and buds at the centre surrounded by fleurons. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the curl pattern in red, orange, green, blue and white. The turn-ins are gold-tooled with a repeating pattern of chevrons and stylised leaves and there are gold-tooled double fillets on the board edges. The book has gilt edges and a blue silk ribbon register. Size: 217 x 164mm. Leaf size: 210 x 155mm.

Provenance

Beneath the register on p5v is an inscription in ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century: Iste liber e[st] monasterij celestino[rum] s[an]cte crucis S.4. The book was in the possession of the Celestine monastery of Sainte-Croix-sous-Offemont.


Armorial bookplate on the recto of the first front flyleaf: Ex libris D.D. de Tellier de Courtanvaux.


Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown, on which is written, in black ink manuscript: Maggs 1925. £21 (i.e. Maggs Bros. Ltd., dealers of rare books and manuscripts since 1853).


Bookseller's note giving price and date in pencil on the recto of the back free endpaper: 15/15/-. 8/11/28.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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