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Roman capitals: DELICTA IUVENTUTIS MEAE / NE MEMINERIS / DOMINE and, on verso, RIME DI M. PIETRO / BEMBO\r\nff. 1r-63v: Sonnets of Pietro Bembo, the first beginning “Piansi et cantai lo stratio et l’aspra guerra”, the last “O sol, di cui questo bel sole è raggio”.\r\nf. 64v-67v: Index\r\nff. 68r-69v: Sonnets addressed to Bembo\r\nf. 70r: Blank\r\nff. 70v-79r: Verses, fifty in all, recited by Bembo and Ottaviano Fregoso on the eve of the carnival, 1507\r\nf. 79v: blank\r\n\nBinding: 19th century, England (?), red morocco over pasteboards, frames of gold tooled ornament and blind ornament; spine with three raised bands, gold tooled floral design in top and bottom compartments, gold tooled lettering in two middle compartments. 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As per notes by Cockerell: \"Lot 218, p. 18, in sale of Stanley, 28 St James’s St, London, of books consigned from Italy, 9 June 1816.” \r\n2)\tRev. John Mitford (1781-1859): inscription “1823”. His sale, Sotheby’s, London, 9 July 1860, lot 3 (bought for £3.10 by Boone). As per notes by Cockerell: \"No. 3 in cat. of MSS of Rev. John Mitford of Benhall, Saxmundham, Suffolk, sold at Sotheby’s, London, 9 July 1860. Bought by Boone for £3.10.\"\r\n3)\tBoone, from 1860. \r\n4)\tAndré B. Know: his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 12-13 August 1872, lot 83 (bought for £3.12 by Molini). As per notes by Cockerell: “Lot 83 in the sale of library of André B. Know at Sotheby’s, 12-13 August 1872, £3.12, Molini.”\r\n5)\tMolini (maybe Frederick Fowler Molini 1818-1895), from 1872.\r\n6)\tRobert Samuel Turner: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 18-30 June 1888. Bought by H.White, £5.5 . As per notes by Cockerell: “Lot 476 in sale of library of Robert Samuel Turner at Sotheby’s, 18-30 June 1888. 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