Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 4) (London, 1815) [Cicognara, 4650-4]

Padua; 1472.] PETRARCH. 135

FRANCISCI PETRARCAE
POETAE EXCELLENTIS
SIMI RERVM YVL
GARIYM FRAG
MENTA EXPLI
CIYNT.

On the recto of the following leaf, begin the Triumphs : the first
page being wholly in eapital letters, and containing 26 lines, The
Triumphs conclude on the reverse of the 3/411 folio, from the beginning,
inclusively, thus:

FRANCISCI PETRARCAE
POETAE EXCELLENTIS
SIMI TRIVMPHI
EXPLICIYNT.

A full page has 30 lines. Then follows a life of Petrarch, written in
Italian, in seven pages, ending thus:

quando el Petrarcha mori era il bochazio
diminor eta de lui de an
*ii. ix. 8c cosi per suc
cessione andoro
no lumuse
finis.

VI

TE

.F.

AMEN AL .P. PHA ET O

On the reverse are two Italian sonnets in praise of the poet’s memory.
The colophon occupies the recto of the following leaf, thus—

VOL. iv.

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