Opera Latina

Description: 

Opera Latina Leaf
Swiss (Basel), 1496

Author: Petrarch (Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, 1304-1374)
Printer: Amerbach, Johann

Single leaf

Language: Latin

height 29 cm
width 20.5 cm

A printed leaf in Latin from Petrarch's military writings collected and edited by Sebastian Brant. The leaf is of laid paper with text printed in a single column by Johann Amerbach. A catch letter and number at the bottom right-hand corner is printed on the recto side. The headings read "De Exercitu armato: Dialogus XCVII." on the recto and "De Classe instructa: XCVIII. De Machinis & Balistis: XCIX." on the verso. Sections are noted by paragraph marks, and some are further noted by letters printed in the margins. The three dialogs show three-line square spaces featuring the lowercase letter that should have been hand-lettered there.

Reed College Library Special Collections, Lloyd Reynolds 5
Gift of Steven Herold