Accession number
PML 20585
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
Iohannis bocacii de cercaldis historiographi prologvs in libros de casibvs virorvm illvstrivm.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Georg Husner], [about 1474-1475]
Description
[156] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Printed in Husner's type 1:102G.
Polain, Catalogue des livres imprimés Belgique, 705 dates as before 1479.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-5¹⁰ 6-18⁸]: 156 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Polain, Catalogue des livres imprimés Belgique, 705 dates as before 1479.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹² 3-5¹⁰ 6-18⁸]: 156 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled black calf, in a pastiche of an early style, over wooden boards (27.8 x 21 cm) by Forster Brown of Durham, with his ticket; repaired. Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards with gold initial on leaf [1]/2r, red L-brackets around chapter titles, Roman numeral book number in top margin of rectos, and Roman numeral foliation in outer margin of rectos. Table at end (leaves [18]/6-8) keyed to manuscript foliation. Annotations: minimal marginal annotations.
Provenance
Christophorus Ryneck, inscription, 1536, partially abraded (leaf [1]/2r): "Presens hic liber est [???] nobis in testamento suo v. ac g. d[omi]n[u]s Christophor[us] a Ryneck decan[us] maioris eccl[es]ie Treverensis [i.e. Trier, Liebfrauenkirche] 1536;" Edward Shipperdson (1780-1855), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), inscription (front fly verso); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 88, to Bernard Quaritch (with collation notes, rear fly recto) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).
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