Accession number
PML 194
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
De mulieribus claris.
Published
Ulm : Johann Zainer, 1473.
Description
[2], i-Cxvi leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Libri Iohan[n]is Boccacii de Cartaldo/ de mulieribus claris...
Colophon (leaf [12]/8r): Liber Ioha[n]nis boccacii de certaldo de m[u]l[ie]ribus claris/ su[m]ma cum diligentia amplius solito correctus/ ac per Ioha[n]nem czeiner de Reutlingen/ ulme impressus finit feliciter. Anno d[omi]ni M°cccc°lxxiii.
Printed in Zainer's type 1:117G.
Collation: [1-11¹⁰ 12⁸]: 188 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
81 woodcuts, initials, and decorative border. Woodcut on leaf [4]/1v (Argia and Polinites) dated 1473.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.2 cm.
Colophon (leaf [12]/8r): Liber Ioha[n]nis boccacii de certaldo de m[u]l[ie]ribus claris/ su[m]ma cum diligentia amplius solito correctus/ ac per Ioha[n]nem czeiner de Reutlingen/ ulme impressus finit feliciter. Anno d[omi]ni M°cccc°lxxiii.
Printed in Zainer's type 1:117G.
Collation: [1-11¹⁰ 12⁸]: 188 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
81 woodcuts, initials, and decorative border. Woodcut on leaf [4]/1v (Argia and Polinites) dated 1473.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 20.2 cm.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin over boards (31 x 21 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Colored wash on a few woodcuts and initials. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Inscription, in graphite, unidentified: "hanc librum Schelhornig inter memorabilia Bibliotheca conumeral. Jo. 3. Amenitatum" (leaf [12]/8r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear pastedown) and inscription, WB 118 (on note leaf and former fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: ym/-/- (on former fly leaf, in dept. file); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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