Francisci Petrarcae poetae oratoris[que] Clarissimi de Remediis utrius[que] fortunae ad Azonem : Liber primus[-secundus].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Contributor:

Lucarus, Nicolaus, -1515.

Misintis, Bernardinus de, active 1492-1505, printer.

Caesar, Parmensis, active 1492-1493, printer.

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De remediis utriusque fortunae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Cremona -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Mayer, Caesar (autograph)

Physical Description:

166 unnumbered leaves (first and last leaves blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

3.2. time osse lami (C) 1492 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impressum Cremonae ... : Bernardini de Misintis Papie[n]sis ac Caesaris Parmensis sociorum diligenti opera, Anno Incarnationis d[omi]nice 1492 die 17 mensis Nouembris [17 November 1492]

Notes:

Title from incipit of liber primus (leaf a2r), which reads: Francisci Petrarcae poetae oratoris[que]. Clarissimi de Remediis utrius[que] fortunae: ad Azonem. Liber primus. Incipit.

Imprint from colophon on leaf C7v, which reads: Accipe tandem candidissime lector Diuinum Francisci Petrarcae: opus Nicolai lugari i[n]dustria sollerti Nitidissimu[m]: Bernardini. de misintis Papie[n]sis ac Caesaris Parmensis sociorum diligenti opera. Impressum Cremonae. Anno Incarnationis d[omi]nice. 1492. die. 17. mensis Nouembris.

Chancery folio. Leaf a1r: 45 lines; area of text: 228 x 134 mm. (Number of lines per page varies; GW gives: 43-44.) Initial spaces with guide letters. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures and catchwords; without foliation. One woodcut initial on leaf a2r; woodcut printers' device (64 x 50 mm.) on leaf C7v.

Signatures: pi⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ A-B⁶ C⁸ (leaves pi1 and C8 blanks).

"Tabula rubricarum praecedentis libri &c.": Leaves pi2-pi4.

"Ad magnificum splendidissimum[que] uirum Marchisinum stangham: Ducalem Secreaterium Nicolaie lucari Cremonensis Epistola.": Leaf a1.

Incipit of liber secundus (leaf n2r) reads: Clarissimi poetae et oratoris Francisci Petrarcae de remediis fortunae aduersae secundus liber incipit.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 284 x 190 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. imprint date ("1492") and partially illegible ms. bibliographical note ("Rarissima Editio Princepes [sic?] Bibl: de B[...] No. 1325 - [...] 160") in brown ink on front free endpaper; early ms. marginal note on leaf c2r.

Bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by Francis Campbell Macauley in 1896.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris D. Caesaris Mayer [...]") of Caesar Mayer in brown ink on back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment with fore-edge flaps (each ca. 5 mm. in width); two gold-tooled red morocco spine labels, one with author and title, the other with imprint place and date; marbled pastedowns; all edges speckled red and blue.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves pi1.4 (the first a blank) wanting.

Cited in:

Goff P-409

BM 15th cent. VII, 956 (IB.30816)

GW M31618

BN cat. des incun. P-164

BSB-Ink. P-264

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books 3387

Hain-Copinger 12793*

Proctor 6927

IGI 7578

Fiske 13

ISTC ip00409000

OCLC:

78664584