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]

PETRARCH.

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Francisci Petrarche laureati poete
necnon secretarii apostolici
beneraeriti. Rerum
uulgariu fragmeta
ex originali
libro ex
tracta.

Vrbs Basilea mihi nome e Leoardus achates :

Anno christi humanati. M.cccc.lxxiiii.

Yenet. Duce. Nicol. Marcel.

A full page of the Triumphs contains 32 lines. La Serna Santander
has noticed this edition as if it contained only the Triumphs : see his
Dict. Bibliogr. Choisi. vol. iii. p. 250. It has neither numerals, signatures,
nor catchvvords; and is of moderate typographical beauty. The present
is a sound copy, in green morocco binding.

829. Petrarcha. Sonetti e Trionfi. IVithout
Name of Printer, Ptace, or Date. Folio.

As far as I can discover, this barbarously printed edition lias escaped
the notice of bibliographers. The type is partly gothic and partly
roman : at least the g's are alvvays of the former character. I have
designated it a folio, from the perpendicularity of the vvater mark ; but
the copy under description (7f inches in height, by 5J- in vvidth) is of
the dimensions of a small quarto. This copy is without a table, but
it presents us with the commencement of the first sonnet thus :

v OI. CHASCOLTATE. IN
RIME SPARSE IL SONO
DI QYEI SOSPIRI ON
DIO NVTRIYA IL CORE
Insul mio primo giouenile errore
Quado era I pte altro huo da ql chi sono
Del uario stile ichio piango et ragiono
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