Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Title:

Trionfi e Canzoniere.

Alternate Title(s):

Trionfi, sonetti e canzone

Published / Created:

[Venice] : [Piero de Piasi], [10 May 1491 and 1 April 1492]

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 128, 96, 98-102 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 31 cm (fol.)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0665
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Title from Incunabula short title catalogue; alternative title from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke; no title available from the work itself.

Commentary on the Trionfi by Bernardo Lapini; on the Canzoniere, by Francesco Filelfo and Girolamo Squarciafico.

Edited by Gabriello Bruno and Girolamo Centone.

Six woodcuts of the Trionfi: (aa8v, Amor; e2v, Castitatis; f5v, Mortis; h4v Fame; o6v, Temporis; p7v Divinitatis); each within black-ground frame with empty shield in lower margin; woodcut designs attributed to the Master of the Pico Pliny (see Lilian Armstrong, La xilografia nel libro Italiano del quattrocento: un percorso tra gli incunaboli del Seminario Vescovile di Padova, translated by Lucia Mariani, edited by Paola Maria Farina, Milan: EDUCatt, 83-85).

Colophon, part 1 (q7v): "Finit Petrarca nup[er] sum[m]a dilige[n]tia a reuere[n]do. p. ordi[ni]s mino[rum] mag[ist]ro gabriele bruno ueneto terre sa[n]ctae mi[ni]stro eme[n]datus a[n]no d[omi]ni .1491. die .10. maii."

Colophon, part 2 (N6r): "Finisse gli sonetti di Misser Francescho Petrarcha coret & castigati per me Hieronymo Centone Paduano impressi i[n] uetia [sic] per Piero Veroneso nel M. CCCCLXXXXII. adi primo. de aprile regnante lo inclito & glorioso principe Augustino Barbadico."

Signatures: aa⁸ a-q⁸ A-M⁸ N⁶ (aa1 and N6 blank).

Incunabula short title catalogue, ip00387000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-387

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 12773

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M31730

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 270

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0665: Imperfect: two leaves only, with the full-page woodcuts of the Triumph of Fame (h4) and the Triumph of Chastity (e2). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.

Subject Terms:

Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.

Form/Genre:

Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)

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