Proemio di messer Francescho. Petrarcha nel libro degli imperadori et pontefici
Publisher: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli
Published: 1478
Place of publication: Florence
Language: ita
Number of pages: 104
Work titles: Vite dei pontefici ed imperatori romani
Notes: Signatures: pi² a-b⁸ c-h⁶ I⁶ ℓ-q⁶ r⁸ (r8 blank).

Colophon: Finiscono. Le uite de pontefici & imperadori romani da messere Franciesco Petrarca in sino a suoi tempi composte. Dipoi con diligenzia & breuita seghuitate infino nel lanno. .M.CCCC.LXX.VIII. Impressvm. Florentiae. apvd. Sanctvm. Iacobvm. de. Ripoli. anno. Domini. M.CCCC.LXX.VIII.

The 2 unsigned leaves at front contain a table.

Authorship wrongly ascribed to Petrarch.

Hain-Copinger(+Add), 12809*.

Proctor, 6102.

Goff, P-420.

BM 15th cent., VI, 623 (IB.27046a).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ip00420000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2839.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

MS marginalia in a contemporary hand, which has written "Laurentius de Medicis" below the colophon, but the hand does not appear to be his.

Bound in 19th-century orange morocco, edges gilt; leaf a8 is misbound after leaf p6, and a duplicate of a8 from another copy, trimmed to the edge of text and inlaid, has been inserted at the proper place; blank leaf r8 not present.