Accession number
PML 665
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
Iohan bocacio de las mujeres illustres en roma[n]ce.
Published
Caragoça de Aragon : por industria y expensas de Paulo Hurus, .xxiii. dias del mes de Octubre ... Mil quatrocientos nouenta y quatro, [24 October 1494].
Description
[1], II-CIX (with mistakes) leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from xylographic half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p4r: [Printer's mark] La presente obra fue acabada enla insigne/ [y] muy noble ciudad de Caragoça de Aragon: por industria/ [y] expensas de Paulo hurus Aleman de Co[n]stancia a .xxiii. dias del mes de octubre: enel año dela humana saluacion .Mil quatrocientos nouenta [y] quatro.
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G and 3:100G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-m⁸/⁶ n-p⁸: 110 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
76 woodcuts, printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 19.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p4r: [Printer's mark] La presente obra fue acabada enla insigne/ [y] muy noble ciudad de Caragoça de Aragon: por industria/ [y] expensas de Paulo hurus Aleman de Co[n]stancia a .xxiii. dias del mes de octubre: enel año dela humana saluacion .Mil quatrocientos nouenta [y] quatro.
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G and 3:100G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-m⁸/⁶ n-p⁸: 110 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
76 woodcuts, printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; marbled edges.
Variant title
Las mujeres illustres
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Thomas Crofts (1722-1781), booklabel with bust of Antoninus and initials TC (front pastedown), Bibliotheca Croftsiana sale, Paterson's, 7 April 1783, lot 4013 to: Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription, 1 May 1783 (front endleaf 2 recto), purchased at Crofts's sale for £2.12.6, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 436 for £81; unidentified shelfmark, in pencil: L.2.15 (front endleaf 1 verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 198, 8/5/96 and price code: wmm/-/- +com (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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