Bod-Inc: P-151
Petrarca, Francesco
Canzoniere e Trionfi (ed. Cristoforo Berardi) [Italian].
Analysis of Content
[*2r] [Alphabetical list of contents, Canzoniere.]
[a1r] [Petrarca, Francesco: Canzoniere.] Edited by Cristoforo Berardi; see the verse colophon and La Collezione rossettiana: il sogno di un patrizio triestino nell'Età della Restaurazione. Trieste, 12 dicembre 2003 - 12 marzo 2004, ed. Francesca Nodari and Alessandra Sirugo (Trieste, 2003), 24-6, no. 13, with the colophon transcribed at 25. Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere, ed. M. Santagata (Milan, 1996), nos 1, 3, 2, 4-79, 81-2, 80, 83-336, 350, 355, 337-39, 342, 340, 351-4, 359, 341, 343, 356, 344-9, 357-8, 360-5, 264, 366. See Wilkins 381 A.I.; E. Sandal, La prima edizione delle opere volgari del Petrarca, in Illustrazione libraria, filologia e esegesi petrarchesca tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, ed. G. Frasso, G. Mariani Canova, and E. Sandal, Studi sul Petrarca, 20 (Padua, 1990), 1-18; see also Luigi Balsamo, ‘Chi leggeva Le cose volgari del Petrarca nell'Europa del ‘400 e ‘500', Bibliofilia, 104 (2002), 247-66.
[p1r] [Petrarca, Francesco: Trionfi.] Francesco Petrarca, Trionfi, Rime estravaganti, codice degli abbozzi, ed. V. Pacca and L. Paolino (Milan, 1996), 47-90 (T Cupidinis I), 135-76 (T Cupidinis III, with 4 extra lines at the end), 97-128 (T Cupidinis II), 183-220 (T Cupidinis IV); 227-64 (T Pudicitie), 543-6 (T Mortis Ia), 271-300 (T Mortis I), 309-46 (T Mortis II), 555-84 (T Fame Ia), 353-88 (T Fame I), 393-428 (T Fame II), 433-70 (T Fame III, ends with extra line: ‘Qui lascio et piu dilor non dico auante'); 477-504 (T Temporis), 511-38 (T Eternitatis).
[p6v] [Petrarca, Francesco: Triumphus Cupidinis III, end]. Incipit: ‘Et so icostumi lor sospiri e canti | el parlar rotto, el subito silentio . . . con lassentio'; 4 more lines of verse. D. Dutschke, ‘Triumphus cupidinis III ("Era sì pieno il cor di meraviglie")', Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 104 (1991-2), 257-98, at 276.
[s7r] [Verse colophon.] Incipit: ‘Que fuerat multis quondam confusa tenebris | Petrarce Laure metra sacrata sue'; 3 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, 1470. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*8 a–n10 o6 p–r10 s8].
References
ISTC: ip00371000
Hain: HR 12753;
Goff: Goff P‑371;
BMC: BMC V 154;
Proctor: Pr 4024;
Others: CIBN P‑174; Fiske, p. 71; Sheppard 3194. Microfiche: Unit 10: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part IV. Facsimile: Edizione anastatica dell'incunabolo queriniano G. V. 15, ed. E. Sandal and P. Gibellini (Padua, 1995).
LCN: 14494724
Copies
Copy number: P-151(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [*1] and [s8].
Binding: Nineteenth-century gold- and blind-tooled red morocco; gilt-edged leaves and marbled pastedowns. Kept in a box of white parchment over pasteboards.
Size: 265 × 190 × 43 mm.
Size of leaf: 254 × 170 mm.
A few pointing hands and guide-letters in an early hand.
On [a1r] a modern illuminated initial is supplied in gold with foliate extension into the margin also supplied in gold edged in blue; in the lower margin of the same leaf a wreath contains a picture of Petrarch in profile, in the style of a cameo, supplied in white within a black ground. Initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Purchased for £90. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 34.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.55.
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