28. Petrarca, Francesco

Opera Latina

Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1496

Description

Paper. 360 leaves; 275 x 190 mm. (fol.) Roman type. Title page bound at back; 'De Vita Solitaria' the first to appear in this particular edition. F. 345a Colophon: Explicit Liber Augustalis: Beneuenuti de Rambaldis cum pluribus alijs opusculus Francisci Petrarchae: Impressus Basileae per Magistrum Ioannem de Amerbach: Anno salutiferi uirginalis partus: Nonagesimosexto supra millesimu quaterqz centesimum. F. f359a (as bound): Librorum Francisci Petrarchae Basileae Impressorum Annotatio. F. 359b - De Commendatione Impressionis Francisci Petrarchae Elogiu Sebastian Brant. Rubricated throughout in red and blue.

Binding

Half bound calf (scuffed) boards; detached. Spine badly cracked, disintegrating, and reading: Petra... 1496.

Printer

Johann Amerbach (c. 1430 1513) was born at Reutlingen in Germany. He studied at the Sorbonne under Johann Heynlin before working in Nuremberg as a press corrector for Anton Koberger. He established a press at Basel about 1481 (1478 has also been suggested), and became its leading printer, issuing some seventy works. He was the first Basel printer to use roman type. At various times, Amerbach was in partnership with Jacob von Pforzheim, Johann Petri, and Johann Froben, and he had continued his association with Anton Koberger at Nuremberg, who acted as his publisher, and with Rusch at Strassburg, to whom he appears to have lent type

Provenance

1. Cinc Cordati (?) 2. Canon William Ardene Shoults 3. Selwyn College; Otago University Library

Reference

HC 12749*; BMC III 757; Goff P365; Kaplan 371; ISTC ip00365000

Illustrations

'De Vita Solitaria' and detail, Prologus (f.2a), Tractatus I (f.3a), binding, colophon, (Title page) Impressorum Annotatio, with manuscript notes, Sebastian Brant and De Commendatione.