Accession number
PML 47
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
De claris mulieribus.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Georg Husner], [about 1474-1475]
Description
[84] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Printed in Husner's type 1:102G.
Title from colophon (leaf [10]/10r): "Explicit compendiu[m] Ioha[n]nis Boccacii de Certaldo. quod de preclaris mulieribus ac fama[m] p[er]petuam edidit feliciter."
Polain, Catalogue des livres imprimés Belgique, 710 dates as not after 1479.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-9⁸ 10¹⁰]: 84 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.9 cm.
Title from colophon (leaf [10]/10r): "Explicit compendiu[m] Ioha[n]nis Boccacii de Certaldo. quod de preclaris mulieribus ac fama[m] p[er]petuam edidit feliciter."
Polain, Catalogue des livres imprimés Belgique, 710 dates as not after 1479.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-9⁸ 10¹⁰]: 84 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.9 cm.
Binding
19th-century blind-tooled purple morocco over paper boards (28.8 x 20.9 cm) with gilt-tooled turn-ins; repaired by Sanford and Clarke (stamp on rear fly recto).
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, blue lombard with red flourishing (leaf [1]/2r, red lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: a few marginal and inter-linear annotations. Title written in orange crayon, "Bocaci[us] de clarius mulierib[us]" (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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