Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha

Overview

Place of Publication

Venice
Italy

Printer
Date of Publication
1501
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Editor

Description

Physical Description: Format

8°; a-y8,z4, A8, B4; [192] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; no printed numbering.

Title Page

LE COSE VOLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

Internal Description

a1r: title page;
 
a1v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN VITA | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
a2r-n3v: RVF 1-263;
 
n3v: SONETTI ET CANZONI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA | IN MORTE | DI MADONNA LAVRA;
 
n4r-s5r: RVF 264-366;
 
s5v: TRIOMPHI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO | PETRARCHA;
 
s6r-z3v: Triumphi;
 
z3v: colophon: Impresso in Vinegia nelle case d’Aldo Romano nel anno .MDI. del mese di Luglio, et tolto con sommissima diligenza dallo scritto di mano medesima del Poeta, hauuto da M[esser] Piero Bembo con la concessione della Illustrissima signoria nostra, che per .x. anni nessuno possa stampare il Petrarcha sotto le pene, che in lei si contengono;
 
z4r-z4v: blank;
 
A1r-A7v: alphabetical index of the first lines of RVF poems (under each letter of the alphabet, poems are listed in order of appearance);
 
A7v: index of the capitoli of the Triumphi in order of appearance;
 
A8r-A8v: blank;
 
B1r-B3v: Manutius’s address to readers;
 
B3v-B4r: list of errata;
 
B4v: blank.

Copy Seen

Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 15442
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 43 (R213235)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 20957
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

Bodleian Library
Oxford
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Auct. 2 R inf. 114
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

The John Rylands Library first copy (Aldine Collection 15442) is on vellum and has a velvet cover decorated with sewn floral elements; decorated initial for RVF 1 (a2r), illuminated architectural frame with floral and zoological elements (on the top part and the two lateral margins) and a coat of arms with two angels on the sides (on the bottom part); decorated initials for the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo.
 
The John Rylands Library second copy (Aldine Collection 43) has been washed and its margins cut, but still carries signs of several marginal handwritten annotations (in orange ink – almost all barely readable) and several underlinings (in orange ink too).
 
The John Rylands Library third copy (Aldine Collection 20957) is on vellum; decorated initials for RVF 1 and the beginning of each Triumphus and each subsequent capitolo; some possession notes on both front and back guard sheets and title page; a few handwritten marginal annotations.

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