tip00419000

Text-inc Id:

tip00419000

Bod-inc Id:

P-174

Headings:

Petrarca, Francesco De vita solitaria, et al. (ed. Franciscus Caymus).

Analysis of content:

1. A1r [Title-page.]
2. A1v Caymus, Franciscus: [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan. Incipit: ‘Superiore estate optime princeps cum aduersa ualitudine . . .’ Saxius 522 no. 66.
3. A2r Petrarca, Francesco: De vita solitaria [dedicated to] Philippus de Cabassole, Bishop of Cavaillon, as stated in the colophon. Edited by Franciscus Caymus. See P‑149.
4. H3v [Colophon.]
5. H4r Petrarca, Francesco [pseudo-; Siricho, Lombardus de]: De dispositione vitae suae ad gubernatorem patriae. Incipit: ‘[F]eruet animus te uidendi desiderio pater alme . . .’ On the authorship see Carlo Dionisotti, ‘Fortuna del Petrarca nel quattrocento', Italia medioevale e umanistica, 17 (1974), 61-113, at 63.
6. H5v Petrarca, Francesco: ‘Carmina dum laboraret in extremis'. Incipit: ‘Cuncta uorant anni uolucres, domat omnia tempus | In domitumque cadit matris fortuna uigorque | Arentique uires senio dat terga senectus'; 3 hexameters. Bucolicum camen, vv. 4-6; R. Weiss, ‘Petrarch minutiae', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 12 (1949), 190-1.
7. H5v Petrarca, Francesco: ‘Epitaphium per eum editum'. Incipit: ‘Frigida Francisci lapis hic tegit ossa Petrarce | Suscipe uirgo parens animam, sate uirgine parce | Fessaque iam terris celi requiescat in arce'; 3 hexameters. L. Bertalot, ‘Die älteste gedruckte lateinische Epitaphiensammlung', in Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni S. Olschki oblata (Munich, 1921), 1-28, repr. in Studien zum italienischen und deutschen Humanismus, ed. P. O. Kristeller, 2 vols, Storia e letteratura, 129-130 (Rome, 1975), I 269-301, at 281 no. 23.

Imprint:

Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 13 Aug. 1498. Folio.

Collation:

A–G⁸ H⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00419000 HCR 12797; Goff P‑419; BMC VI 774, XII 54; Pr 6039; CIBN P‑172; Sheppard 5013. LCN: 14496301

Copies:

1. P-174(1) Copy Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch gold-tooled red morocco; marbled-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns, and pink silk bookmark; see Foot, ‘Incunable Collector', no. 41; stamped with Wodhull's arms. Size: 292 × 203 × 22 mm. Size of leaf: 280 × 186 mm. Bibliographical notes in Wodhull's hand on front endleaves. Initials are supplied in pink, sometimes with blue geometrical pen-work decoration. Provenance: Michael Wodhull (1740-1816); note signed and dated on verso of front endleaf: ‘M. Wodhull Feb: 18th 1780 £1: 5s:- . 429 of Payne'. John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); sale (1886), lot 1942; purchased for £0. 17. 0; see Library Bills. SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 5.40.