Incominciano le vite depontefici et imperadori romani /
Petrarca, Francesco,1304-1374.
Arcangelo, F.,former owner.StEdNL
San Jacopo di Ripoli (Convent : Florence, Italy),printer.
Impressum Florentiae : Apud Sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli,
anno Domini M.CCCC.LXX.VIII. [1478]
Title from caption on leaf a1 verso.
Imprint from colophon.
The work is traditionally, but wrongly, ascribed to Petrarch (E. Pellegrin, Manuscrits de Pétrarque ... France, 1966). Cf. ISTC.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Signatures: [pi]² a-b⁸ c-h⁶ I⁶ l-q⁶ r⁸.
With a final blank leaf.
Ink inscription on verso of front free endpaper: Cette edition est fort rare & rechercheé par les curieux. Elle est l'originale de cette ouvrage de Petrarque.
Illuminated initial with partial painted border in gutter margin on recto of leaf a1. Initials supplied in red or blue and embellished in pen.
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze catalog,
BM 15th cent.,
Goff
GW
ISTC
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink inscription within a scroll at foot of recto of leaf a1: Di Fre Archangelo CT Amico[rum]. Advocates Library ex libris dated 1790 on front free endpaper.
18th-century leather with blind tooled border and central blind tooled recatangle on front and back boards, loss to most of spine, gilt tooled board edges, blind rolled turn-ins, gilt gauffered edges and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
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