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Trionfi e Canzoniere

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Type of record: Book

Title: Trionfi e Canzoniere

Other titles: Rime

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/PET

Creator(s): Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)

Additional creator(s): Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) (Other); Centone, Girolamo (Editor); Filelfo, Francesco (1398-1481) (Commentator); Squarciafico, Girolamo (Commentator); Lapini, Bernardo (fl. 1475) (Commentator); Piasi, Piero de (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Petrarca, Francesco; Centone, Girolamo; Filelfo, Francesco; Squarciafico, Girolamo; Lapini, Bernardo; Piasi, Piero de; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: per Piero Veroneso; Petrus de Plasiis, Cremonensis

Publication city: Impressi in Venetia [Venice]

Date(s): M.CCCCLXXXX. Adi.xxii.de Aprilo. [22 April 1490]

Language: Italian

Size and medium: [8], 128; 102 [i.e. 101], [1] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/94947

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007978699705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: part 1: a⁸ 2a-q⁸; part 2: A-M⁸ N⁶.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on the verso of numbered leaf 102 (N5v) reads: Finisse gli sonetti di Misser Francescho Petrarca coreti & castigati per me Hieronymo Centone Paduano Impressi in Venetia per Piero Veroneso nel M.CCCCLXXXX. Adi.xxii.de Aprilo Regnante lo Inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico.


Title from Goff.


In two parts: part 1 is undated; part 2 is dated 22 April 1490.


With the commentary of Bernardus Ilicinus on the Trionfi and that of Francesco Philelpho, continued by Hieronymo Squarzafico, on the Sonetti and Canzoni. The text of the Sonetti was corrected by Hieronymo Centone.


Printed with 61 lines of commentary partially surrounding 5 lines of text.


Leaf numbers printed at top right of rectos.


Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.


Six full-page woodcuts, each within the same historiated woodcut border (white on black) in part 1. These illustrations to the Trionfi are based on the same designs as certain anonymous Florentine copper engravings (reproduced in Reid, G. W., Works of the Italian engravers of the fifteenth century. London 1884). The woodcuts are shaded in the manner of the engravings.


Ornamental woodcut initials of different sizes, white on black.


The first leaf of part 1 and the last leaf of part 2 are blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00386000.


Indexed in: Goff P386; Hain-Copinger 12771; Reichling III 143; BMC V 270.

Features

Occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century.


According to a twentieth-century manuscript note written on an inserted sheet pasted to the recto of the front free endpaper, the first ten leaves of this copy (including the first full-page woodcut) have been supplied from De Zanis' 1500 edition (BMC V 434).


Some worm damage.


This copy is wanting all before leaf [5].


Bindings


Binding of full Italian vellum over pasteboard. The spine has five raised bands. Written directly onto the first panel in black ink manuscript is the name: Petrarcha. Written directly onto the second panel in ink manuscript, now much faded: Rime [...]. The leaf edges are coloured blue. Size: 307 x 212mm. Leaf size: 296 x 206mm.

Provenance

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

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