In amoromento de Carlo Mano imperatore de Roma e del sui paladini Orlando e Rinaldo

Alternate Title:

In amoromento de Carlo Mano imperatore de Roma e del svi paladini Orlando e Rinaldo; Inamoramento di Carlo Magno

Contributor:

Walch, Georgius (printer)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1481

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Callesas, Matheo (autograph); Gumuchian & cie. (inscription); Lafita, Pancracio (former owner) (inscription) (stamp)

Publisher:

Zorzo uualch dalemagna [that is, Georgius Walch]

Subject:

Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 Romances Early works to 1800; Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814; Renaud de Montauban (Legendary character) -- Romances -- Early works to 1800; Roland (Legendary character) Romances Early works to 1800; Roland (Legendary character); Renaud de Montauban (Legendary character)

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Romances; Incunabula; books

Physical Description:

248 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank); 30 cm (folio)

Related Place:

Italy -- Venice.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from incipit of text on leaf a2r, which reads: In comenza el primo libro del in amoromento de Carlo Mano imperatore de Roma e del sui paladini Orlando e Rinaldo.; Place of printing from ISTC; printer's name and imprint date from colophon on leaf H7v, which reads: Zorzo uualch dalemagna del .M.cccclxxxi. adi. xx. de luio.; Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a3r: 48 lines to a full column; area of text: 231 x 136 mm.; col. width: 60 mm. Initial spaces, a few with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.; Signatures: a-z⁸ A-H⁸ (leaf a1 blank).; Leaf size: 290 x 194 mm.; Penn Libraries copy without rubrication (a few initials supplied by a reader in brown ink).; Penn Libraries copy has ms. title ("Orlando Furioso") and imprint at head of leaf a3r; ms. imprint in fore-edge margin of leaf a2r; partially illegible ms. inscription ("[...]incunable[...] este ej[empla]r. aleman") at foot of leaf a2r; partially illegible ms. inscription ("Barbastro 7. Deciembre [...] [...]") in fore-edge margin of leaf b4r; partially illegible ms. inscription ("[...]dendo el corno sonar si dolcemente Juan Avadia") on leaf c4r; ms. inscription ("P. Por Matheo") in fore-edge margin of leaf o1r.; Penn Libraries copy has Spanish ms. inscription ("á mās de la 1/2 del Libro hállase el personaje Rey Balbastro") in the hand of Pancracio Lafita in fore-edge margin of leaf a2r; in gathering t various marginal notes and marks indicating references to Balbastro in the text, including one ("+Balbastro (frecuéntemt.) Mǹ. Pancràzio Lafita Barbastro, 20, iv., 866.") signed (and possibly dated?) by Pancracio Lafita.; Penn Libraries copy: gatherings are numbered on the recto of each first leaf in Roman numerals (headline) and Arabic numerals (tail outer corner); leaves foliated in pencil in head outer corner.; Penn Libraries copy has early ms. sketch of three male figures (two hatted and one hatless) in a ship in tail margin of leaf a4v; early ms. sketch of three male figures (two hatted and one with hat in hand), of whom two are clasping hands in tail margin of leaf a5r; ms. sketch of a cup in fore-edge margin of leaf i6v.; Penn Libraries copy has large ms. manicules in ink on leaves e7r, e7v, f1v, g1v, i6v and n2v; large ms. manicule in pencil on leaf g1r.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1961.; Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible dated 19th-century ms. ownership inscription ("[...]z de Màsen [i.e. Mossen?] Pancrazio Lafita, Presbitero de Barbastro, 1, Julio, 1872.") of Pancracio Lafita at foot of leaf a3r; blind stamp ("[...] Pancracio Lafita BARBASTRO") of Pancracio Lafita in fore-edge margin of leaf a2r; autograph ("Matheo Callesas") in brown ink in fore-edge margin of leaf h1r; bookplate ("FROM THE LIBRARY OF LOUIS THOMPSON ROWE OF XV HAMMERSMITH TERRACE, W.") of Louis Thompson Rowe on front pastedown.; Penn Libraries copy has 2 paper slips with bookseller's printed descriptions of this copy (1 in French and 1 in French and English, the latter with ms. note "Gumuchian, cat. 11.") affixed to front pastedown; paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed to back pastedown.; Penn Libraries copy: "Italian binding of the late XVIth century of reddish-brown morocco, richly gilt, with triple roll-produced borders (animals, hunting-scenes, and the binder's initials H.D.P.), inner-compartment with large corner-fleurons, central fleuron showing the bust of a warrior, open spaces filled with gold-stamped scrolls, birds, stars, etc. Gauffered edges."--Bookseller's description (back pastedown).; Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves a1 (blank), a2, e6, l2, E1 and G8 wanting.; Penn Libraries copy: most leaves mended or reinforced at inner margin; leaf k7 torn and mended across central portion; leaf m8 torn and mended near inner margin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Incunables, Folio Inc C-204

Collection:

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)