Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, in the library of George John, Earl Spencer / By Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
- George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, in the library of George John, Earl Spencer / By Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1313. Petrarcha. Sonetti e Trionfi. Coe Comment. Antonio da Tempo. D. de Sili- prandis. Mantua. 1477- Quarto. The FIRST impression of a rare and little known commentary. I shall describe this book in the order in which the contents of it are placed in the present copy. The life of the Poet, and the Commentary upon the Canzone and Triumphs, begin on the recto of the first leaf, without prefix, thus : f Incomincia la vita & il cometo supra li Sonetti Canzone & Triumphi del exceletissimo poeta Misser Friicesco Petrarcha per modo de argumenti & summario composto & compilato p[er] il doc- tissimo Iurista Misser Antonio da tepo,’ &c. The preceding occupies six lines. This, and every full page, contains 30 lines. The life of the poet ends on the reverse of the fifth leaf. The commentary fol- lows, preceded by a proheme. As Brunet justly observes, the first words only of the commencement of each sonnet are given j and the commentary ends on the recto of i iiij, in eights : only the first three leaves (which is unusual) of each signature being marked. On the reverse of i iiij, is the address of Dominicus de Siliprandis to F. de Gon- zaga — replete with contractions—and sufficiently barbarously printed. I select a portion, beginning at the 13th line. Ego autem qui tue. d. fide et corde iuctus sum: cuius ex gra uita mea depedet psens opus ductu meo seneis tabulis ipssu tuo noi: quis exiguu qd illud tibi d. meo pcipuo & prise mese Ipanti dedicare sta tui: ut si qdo p ociu tibi cotigat Iris opa dare le gas &c.* The signatures terminate with the commencement of the sonnets which latter, upon counting, occupy 137 leaves. At the end of the Sonnets is the following colophon : Francisci Petrarcee poetae excellentissimi Re# * This address is dated May 8th. 1477'. Brunet mentions a colophon at the end of the Commentary, not to be found here. All that is here, preceding the above address, is Fimssc el cometn sup li Sonetti et Cazoe de. m. F. Petrarcha per il. q. m. Antonio da tepo.’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22006655_0329.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
