Librorum Francisci Petrarchae Basileae impressorum annotatio..
Petrarca, Francesco,1304-1374.
Brant, Sebastian,1458-1521,editor.
Amerbach, Johannes,1441?-1513,printer.
Basel : Johann Amerbach,
1496.
In some copies leaves 57-60 (quire F of the second section) are bound after leaf 192 (quire c, containing the 'Secretum'.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
Includes the Ydiota de vera sapientia of Nicolaus de Cusa, wrongly ascribed to Petrarca (E.P. Goldschmidt; Medieval texts and their first appearance in print (London, 1943), p. 133).
Signatures: A⁸, B⁶, C⁸, A⁸, B-D⁶, E⁸, F⁴, a⁸, b⁶, c⁸, d⁶, e⁸, f⁶, g¹⁰, h⁸, i-l⁶, m⁸, n-p⁶, q⁸, a⁸, b⁶, c⁶, a¹⁰+1, b⁶, c⁸, d-e⁶, f-g⁸, aa⁸, bb¹⁰, A⁸, B⁶, C⁸, D⁶, E⁸, F⁶, G⁸, H⁶, I⁸, K⁶, L⁸, M¹⁰, a⁶, b¹⁰, A⁸, B⁶, C⁸.
Quire a [third sequence]: sigs. a3 mis-signed aii, a4 mis-signed a2, a5 mis-signed a3, a6 mis-signed a4, a7 mis-signed a5. Quire E [fourth sequence]: sig. E2 mis-signed F2.
With a final blank leaf.
Colophon: Explicit Liber Augustalis Beneuenuti de Rambaldis cum pluribus alijs opusculis Francisci Petrarchae: Impressis Basileae per Magistrum Ioannem de Amerbach: Anno salutiferi uirginalis partus: Nonagesimosexto supra millesimu[s] quater[que] centesimum.
With marginal annotations and underlining.
Initials in red or blue. Rubricated.
Bucolicum carmen; De vita solitaria; De remediis utriusque fortunae; Secretum; De vera sapientia; Rerum memorandarum lib.; Invectivae contra medicum obiurgantem; Epistolae familiares; Epistolae sine titulo; Epistola ad Carolum IV; Epistola de studiorum suorum successibus ad posteritatem; Psalmi poenitentiales; De viris illustribus. Sebastian Brant: De commendatione impressionis Francisci Petrarchae. Benvenutus de Rambaldis: Libellus Augustalis. Annotatio principalium sententiarum ex libris Francisci Petrarchae collectarum.
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Oates
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BM 15th cent.,
BSB-Ink
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Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Early 19th-century leather with gilt tooled border on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands, gilt tooled board edges, marbled endpapers and red edges.
Switzerland Basel.