Prose di M. Pietro Bembo : nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua : scritte ad Cardinale de Medici che poi e stato creato a sommo pontefice et detto Papa Clemente settimo : divise in tre libri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547

Contributor:

Joannes, Tacuinus, de Tridino, printer.

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian language.

Italian language--Grammar--Early works to 1800.

Italian language--Grammar.

Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Dante Alighieri.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- Italy.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

XCIIII, that is, 95 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 32 cm

Fingerprint:

n-di nii- e,pu suti (3) 1525 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Per Giouan Tacuino, MDXXV [1525]

Notes:

Title from verso of fly-leaf.

Imprint from colophon.

First edition. Leaf XLII r, line 22, has the correction of the word "altre" (i.e. "arte") supplied is ms. and distinctively identifiable with respect to a counterfeit contemporary Venetian.

Signatures: A-Q⁶ (Q6 blank).

Typographical errors in numbering of leaves (no. XCIII repeated).

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Colophon: Impresse in Vinegia per Giouan Tacuino, nel mese di settembre del M.D.XXV. Con priuilegio di Papa Clemente, et del senato di questa citta, et di tutti glialtri stati et signori della Italia, nelle cui terre libri si stampano; che niuno per anni.X. possa queste prose imprimere o impresse uendere ne loro luoghi sotto le pene, che in essi priuilegi si contengono; se non coloro, a quali dal compositor loro espressamente sara ordenato che le stampino.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine; remains of two leather ties.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has the bookplate of Francis Campbell Macauley on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has copious ms. notes, underlines and references thoughout.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full brown leather with blind-stamped panel and border; gold-tooled title "Gramatica di Danti" in the center of the panel; all edges dark blue.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound with: Dante Alighieri. Dante' De' la volgare' eloquenzia. Stampata in Vicenza : Per Tolmeo Ianiculo da Bressa, Nel anno MDXXIX, del Mese di Genaro [1529]

Cited in:

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, v. 1, p. 332

Fowler, M. Petrarch, p. 217, Pet+ TA 40

OCLC:

316814106