Accession number
PML 75112
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
Cy commence Jehan bocace de Certald son livre intitule de la Ruyne des nobles hommes et femmes.
Published
Bruges : par Colard Mansion, M.CCCC.lxxvi [1476].
Description
[292] leaves ; 38 x 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the special assistance of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, Jr., Mr. Morris Hadley, The Heineman Foundation, Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, Mr. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, Mrs. August H. Schilling, Mr. Robert M. Pennoyer, Mr. P. Angus Morgan, Mr. Gordon N. Ray, Mr. and Mrs. John Pierrepont, and Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1976.
Notes
Collation: [1⁸ 2-9¹⁰ 10-11⁸; 12-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19¹⁰(X1 [leaf before 19/1]: force vaincues) 20⁸(+3*: libie tresmarri) 21-22¹⁰ 23¹²; 24-30¹⁰]: 292 leaves, leaves [1]/7-8 and [30]/10 blank.
Colophon (leaf [30]/9v): A la gloire et loenge de dieu et a linstruction de tous a este cestui euvre de bocace de dechiet des nobles hommes et femmes. imprime a Bruges par Colard mansion. Anno .M.CCCC.lxxvi.
Known in 4 issues (A-D); see GW. Copies are known with inserted copper engravings (ISTC).
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy is Issue B, with red printed incipit on leaf [1]/1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.8 x 25.5 cm
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/7-8 and [30]/10 (blanks). Damage to gutter margins repaired/reinforced in quires [1-4] and to leaves [30]/1-9 with some text replaced in pen facsimile.
PML copy with variant collation than in GW/BMC, see Paul Needham's notes in dept. file.
Printed in Mansion's type 1:165G.
The translation is sometimes erroneously ascribed to Pierre Faivre, the copyist of a MS of the later version (BMC).
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r], printed in red).
Translated by Laurent de Premierfait.
Colophon (leaf [30]/9v): A la gloire et loenge de dieu et a linstruction de tous a este cestui euvre de bocace de dechiet des nobles hommes et femmes. imprime a Bruges par Colard mansion. Anno .M.CCCC.lxxvi.
Known in 4 issues (A-D); see GW. Copies are known with inserted copper engravings (ISTC).
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy is Issue B, with red printed incipit on leaf [1]/1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.8 x 25.5 cm
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/7-8 and [30]/10 (blanks). Damage to gutter margins repaired/reinforced in quires [1-4] and to leaves [30]/1-9 with some text replaced in pen facsimile.
PML copy with variant collation than in GW/BMC, see Paul Needham's notes in dept. file.
Printed in Mansion's type 1:165G.
The translation is sometimes erroneously ascribed to Pierre Faivre, the copyist of a MS of the later version (BMC).
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r], printed in red).
Translated by Laurent de Premierfait.
Binding
19th/20th-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (38 x 27 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain vellum pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
De la Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary brown pen and ink drawing of Adam and Eve visiting Boccaccio in his study (as described in text), surrounded by painted foliate border with a knight in black armor fighting a dragon, a boar with an magpie on its back, and a monkey playing an instrument (leaf [1]/1r); rubricated, interlocking/alternating red and blue lombards (blue are faded), red paragraph marks, and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Propser-Louis d'Arenberg (1785-1861), Duke of Arenberg, armorial stamp on binding, inherited by his son: Engelbert-Auguste (1824-1875), without spine label or shelf mark [340]; H.P. Kraus, cat. 80 (1955), no. 60; Emdée Maus (1905-1971), monogram booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes, 21 Nov. 1966 (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Paul Jammes (Paris) with the special assistance of Mrs. H. Dunscombe Colt, Jr., Mr. Morris Hadley, The Heineman Foundation, Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, Mr. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, Mrs. August H. Schilling, Mr. Robert M. Pennoyer, Mr. P. Angus Morgan, Mr. Gordon N. Ray, Mr. and Mrs. John Pierrepont, and Miss Julia P. Wightman, Oct. 1976.
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