Accession number
PML 42.1
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Object title
Secretum Francisci Petrarche de Flore[n]cia Poete laureati De Co[n]temptu mundi
Published
[Strasbourg] : [The R-printer (Adolf Rusch)], [not after 1473]
Description
[54] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Printed in Rusch's type 1:103R.
Copy of De vita solitaria in Munich BSB (2 Inc.s.a. 967) rubricated in 1473.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ 6¹⁰]: 54 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Sometimes treated as part of the same edition as Petrarca, De vita solitaria (CIBN P-165; see also ISTC ip00412000/ip00417000 and Bod-inc P-171).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.2 cm.
Copy of De vita solitaria in Munich BSB (2 Inc.s.a. 967) rubricated in 1473.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ 6¹⁰]: 54 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Sometimes treated as part of the same edition as Petrarca, De vita solitaria (CIBN P-165; see also ISTC ip00412000/ip00417000 and Bod-inc P-171).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.2 cm.
Binding
19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled brown calf, in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (29 x 22 cm) by John Faulkner; reparied by Sanford and Clarke. Marbled paper pastedowns and end leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes, underlining of authorities; largely washed. Same rubrication as in De vita solitaria (ChL 73).
Provenance
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), coat of arms with motto "recte faciendo securus" and his typical pasted-in cut outs of woodcuts and engravings (front pastedown and fourth fly recto), his shelf mark: C 113, 113 crossed out and replaced with 32 (bottom of fourth fly leaf recto); [his sales, Sotheby's, 31 July 1871, and 11 June 1900? (not in 1826 sale)]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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