Overview
Lyon
France
RVF, Triumphi
Description
8°; a-y8,z3, A8; [188] fols.
paper; Petrarch’s poems in italic type, printed with one verse per line; no printed numbering
LE COSE VVLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA
a1r: title page;
a1v: SONETTI ET CANZONE | 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;
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.
Notes: This edition is a pirate copy of the 1501 Aldine. Unlike the Aldine edition, this copy has neither colophon, nor address to readers, nor list of errata.
Copy Seen
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom
In one of the John Rylands Library copies (1101(2)), very few handwritten marginal annotations, and no index of the first lines.