Signatures: A-L⁴, M⁶.
Petrarch’s poems and text of lecture in italic type; printed numbering.
Eighteenth-century[?] full calf skin over boards; later gilt-stamped insignia of John Rylands on front cover; gilt-tooled borders on spine: Pastor : / di Varchi / Bartol : / sop. Dante; marbled endpapers.
Bookplate on rear paste-down: Joseph Smith / [British] Consul / [at Venice]
Armorial bookplate of The John Rylands Library 1894 on front paste-down; from the collection of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).
Part of the Spencer library acquired by Enriqueta Rylands in 1892 from John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910), 5th Earl Spencer for The John Rylands Library
Created as part of the project 'Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c.1350-c.1650' funded by the AHRC and led by Professor Simon Gilson (University of Oxford, Principal Investigator), Dr Federica Pich (University of Leeds, Co-Investigator) and Dr Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester, Co-Investigator), edited and revised by Julianne Simpson
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Signatures: A-L⁴, M⁶.
Petrarch’s poems and text of lecture in italic type; printed numbering.
Eighteenth-century[?] full calf skin over boards; later gilt-stamped insignia of John Rylands on front cover; gilt-tooled borders on spine: Pastor : / di Varchi / Bartol : / sop. Dante; marbled endpapers.
Bookplate on rear paste-down: Joseph Smith / [British] Consul / [at Venice]
Armorial bookplate of The John Rylands Library 1894 on front paste-down; from the collection of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).
Part of the Spencer library acquired by Enriqueta Rylands in 1892 from John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910), 5th Earl Spencer for The John Rylands Library
Created as part of the project 'Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c.1350-c.1650' funded by the AHRC and led by Professor Simon Gilson (University of Oxford, Principal Investigator), Dr Federica Pich (University of Leeds, Co-Investigator) and Dr Guyda Armstrong (University of Manchester, Co-Investigator), edited and revised by Julianne Simpson