Francisci Pet. Epistole familiares.

Francisci Pet. Epistole familiares.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374, author.
Uniform title:	Epistolae familiares
Imprint:	[Venice] : [Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio], [13 September 1492]
Description:	[6], 117, [1] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Language:	Latin
Subject:	Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374 -- Correspondence. Petrarca, Francesco, -- 1304-1374. Latin letters, Medieval and modern. Latin letters, Medieval and modern. Incunabula -- Italy -- Venice -- 1492. Annotations (Provenance) Underscoring (Provenance) Manicules (Provenance) Records and correspondence.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy has binding error: leaves pi2-5 bound between leaves p1.6 and leaves p2-5 bound between leaves pi1.6. University of Chicago Library's copy forms part of the Berlin Collection. Discovery of this item made possible by a gift from Julie and Roger Baskes.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2777961

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Other uniform titles:	Berlin Collection.
Other authors / contributors:	Manilio, Sebastiano, active 15th century, editor. Giovanni e Gregorio de'Gregori, printer. Horton Bindery, binder.
Provenance:	Former owner's bibliographic inscription on title page. Former owners' manuscript annotations in 3, possibly 4, hands; underscoring and passages bracketed; manicules; annotations partially trimed on fore-edge. Decoration: Large red and blue pen-flourished initial, leaf 1 recto, second sequence; alternating red and blue initials; rubricated. Binding: Modern quarter bound orange morocco and marbled paper over boards; tightly trimmed at head; signed: Horton Bindery.
Notes:	Incipit, leaf 1 recto: Aelimatissimi poetae, atque oratoris non inculti Francsici Petrarchae aretini epistolarum rebus familiaribus liber primus foelici auspicio incipit ad Socratem suum. Colophon, leaf [117] verso: Impresso in vrbe Venetiarum opera per Iohannem & Gregorium de Gregoriis fratres foelix imponitur finis. Castigatum est aute[m] qua fieri potuit diligentia a Sebastia[n]o Manilio Romano ciui, viro haut illitterato. Humanae restaurationis anno millesimo cccc.lxxxxii idibus Septe[m]bris. Augustino Barbadico serenissimo Venetiaru[m] principe rempublicam tenente. Signatures: pi⁶ a-o⁸ p⁶. 39-41 lines; type (from BMC), 82Rb; capital spaces with guide letters; woodcut printer's device at end. Leaves 20, 22, 25, 45, 64, 107-110 misnumbered "34," "36," "35," "34," "46," "117"-"120," respectively. Incunabula short title catalogue, entry ip00399000 Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, entry M31546 Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, entry 12811* Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, entry P-399 Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, page 342 Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 4526 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, entry P-266 Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, entry P-163

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Item Description:	Incipit, leaf 1 recto: Aelimatissimi poetae, atque oratoris non inculti Francsici Petrarchae aretini epistolarum rebus familiaribus liber primus foelici auspicio incipit ad Socratem suum. Colophon, leaf [117] verso: Impresso in vrbe Venetiarum opera per Iohannem & Gregorium de Gregoriis fratres foelix imponitur finis. Castigatum est aute[m] qua fieri potuit diligentia a Sebastia[n]o Manilio Romano ciui, viro haut illitterato. Humanae restaurationis anno millesimo cccc.lxxxxii idibus Septe[m]bris. Augustino Barbadico serenissimo Venetiaru[m] principe rempublicam tenente. Signatures: pi⁶ a-o⁸ p⁶. 39-41 lines; type (from BMC), 82Rb; capital spaces with guide letters; woodcut printer's device at end. Leaves 20, 22, 25, 45, 64, 107-110 misnumbered "34," "36," "35," "34," "46," "117"-"120," respectively.
Physical Description:	[6], 117, [1] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)