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PETRARCA, Francesco

Vite dei Pontefici e Imperatori romani

Florence
Apud Sanctum Jocobum de Ripoli
1478 [not after 3 Feb.]

€7.800,00

In-folio (26,6 x 19 cm), [103] ff, roman type, 33-34 lines per page, capital spaces, with guide-letters. a-b8 c-h6 I6 l-q6 r7, [*]2. The index is bound at the end. Corner torn of f.a1 with some text loss, (repaired), marginal tears repaired in ff. p3-5 leaving stains, some pale damp staining in the upper margins. Lacking final blank leaf r8. Inner margins of the index reinforced. A few old annotations. Bound in full 18c vellum, mottled edges

The work is wrongly ascribed to Petrarch (E. Pellegrin, Manuscrits de Pétrarque ... France, 1966, p. 320). The press at the Florentine convent of San Jacopo a Ripoli was in operation from 1476 to 1484; its surviving day book gives extensive detail of the activities of this press (M. Conway, The ""Diario"" of the Printing Press of San Jacopo a Ripoli, 1476-1484 (Florence: Olschki, 1999), including the printing costs of the paper (161 lire), ink (115.5 lire) and labour (77 lire) for this edition of 650 copies. Ref. Goff P420 ; BMC VI 623 ; GW M31768; HC 12809*

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