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Le cose vulgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha

Overview

Place of Publication

Lyon
France

Date of Publication
[1501-1502]
Creator
Mode of exegesis
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi

Description

Physical Description: Format

8°; a-y8,z3, A8; [188] fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

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

Title Page

LE COSE VVLGARI | DI MESSER | FRANCESCO PETRARCHA

Internal Description

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

Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 1101(1) (17459)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Location

John Rylands Library
Manchester
United Kingdom

Shelfmark
Aldine Collection 1101(2) (R213707)
Copy seen by
Giacomo
Comiati
Notes

In one of the John Rylands Library copies (1101(2)), very few handwritten marginal annotations, and no index of the first lines.