Research Catalog

Title

Il Petrarca : con dichiarazioni non piu stampate : insieme alcune belle annotazioni, tratte dalle dottissime prose di Monsignor Bembo ... : e più vna conserua di tutte le sue rime ridotte sotto le cinque lettere vocali.

Author

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Publication

In Lyone : Appresso Gulielmo Rouillio, 1558.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.
• Eskrich, Pierre, approximately 1530-approximately 1590.

Description

[2], 5-577, [49] p. : ill., port.; 12 cm. (16mo)

Uniform Title

Rime

Alternative Title

Rime

Genre/Form

• Woodcuts – France – 16th century.
• Bookbinding (Binding) – France – 16th century.
• Fanfare bindings (Binding) – France – 16th century.
• Flap bindings (Binding) – France – 16th century.
• Royal bindings (Binding) – France – 16th century.

Note

• Contains his Sonetti, Canzoni, and Trionfi.
• Another issue has "Tavola di tutte le rime de i sonetti e canzoni del Petrarca" by Luca Antonio Ridolfi following p. 577. Cf. Mortimer.
• Signatures: a-z⁸ A-N⁸, *-2*⁸, [superscript chi]*⁸ (the last signature signed *-4*, ̊5; last leaf blank).
• Illustrations: 7 prints : woodcut ; image 53 x 51 mm. (1) and 42 x 50 mm. (6). Subject: Port. of Petrarca and Laura; the 6 Trionfi. Latter are attributed by Baudrier to Pierre Eskrich or an artist of his school. "The first use of the second Rouillé series of 'Trionfi' cuts"--Mortimer. Port. of Petrarch derived from a miniature in a 15th-century ms. of the Rime in the Bib. Mediceo-Laurenziana, Florence; cf. Fowler, p. 498.
• Publisher's device (on t.p.): 1 print : woodcut ; image 33 x 27 mm. References: Baudrier, 6. -- Floriated, historiated and criblé initials, ornamental head- and tailpieces.
• Includes "Tavola delle desinenze de sonetti, & canzoni del Petrarca" and index of first lines (p. [2-49] at end).

Indexed In (note)

• Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise
• Mortimer, R. French 16th cent.
• Fowler, M. Fiske Petrarch coll.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1558 91-309

OCLC

NYPG91-B57333

Author

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Title

Il Petrarca : con dichiarazioni non piu stampate : insieme alcune belle annotazioni, tratte dalle dottissime prose di Monsignor Bembo ... : e più vna conserua di tutte le sue rime ridotte sotto le cinque lettere vocali.

Imprint

In Lyone : Appresso Gulielmo Rouillio, 1558.

Indexed In:

Baudrier, H.L. Bib. lyonnaise, IX, p. 246-247.

Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 429

Fowler, M. Fiske Petrarch coll., p. 105

Local Note

Ruled in sepia.

Binding: Contemporary (ca. 1570-1580) white vellum, gilt, with tools à la fanfare, oak leaf tool and the intertwined initials H and 2 C's, interpreted as being the cipher of Queen Catherine de Médicis and her son Henry III, King of France; flaps with oak leaf tool; traces of ties. Cf. Les reliures à la fanfare / Geoffrey D. Hobson. 2. éd. p. 16, no. 54. Illustrated in: Die grossen Bibliophilien / G.A.E. Bogeng. v. 2, fig. 46.

Inscribed on 2 blank leaves bound in at beginning: "Bretonniere. 1578.265³. Bretom. C. Caviezel. Caviezel. Honrrado y no mas. 1578. Soubi vertueuse attante je conduis mon esperance. Caswiezel[?] Les Clotetz[?] Viue l'Amour. Viue ma maistresse et moy." Second inscribed leaf has also 2 occurences of a cipher of 2 intertwined C's, one occurence of a cipher of 2 C's joined to 2 ringed I's (resembling Greek letter phi) and 19 occurences of the sign "S fermé" (cf. Hobson, p. 85-119); similar ciphers used on bindings of Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly (cf. Manuel de l'amateur de reliures amoriées françaises, pl. 705).

Provenance: Adolphus Fitz-Clarence, son of William IV, King of Great Britain (armorial bookplate with facsim. autograph); Robert Hoe, Paul Hirsch, Hans Fürstenberg (bookplates).

Added Author

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.

Eskrich, Pierre, approximately 1530-approximately 1590. Attributed name

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1558 91-309