Accession number
PML 79802
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
Incomincia il libro di madonna Fiammetta da lei alle innamorate mandato.
Published
[Northern Italy] : [Printer of Antonius de Rosellis, 'De legitimationibus' (H 13975)], [about 1475-1480]
Description
[80] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol. and 4to.)
Credit line
Purchased at the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1989.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Place of printing from ISTC.
On the date, see BMC and CIBN (dated about 1475-80 from the types in CIBN). The Glasgow copy has an owner's date of 15 July 1480. GW dated about 1480-85.
Printed in type 1B:100R (BMC), 1:103/104R (GW).
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-i⁸ k⁶: 80 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto in half-sheets.
Recorded in ISTC and GW as folio.
Watermark is similar to Briquet 6600, dated 1480-1487 (Milan, Cremona, and Pavia).
1 column, 35 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.6 cm.
Place of printing from ISTC.
On the date, see BMC and CIBN (dated about 1475-80 from the types in CIBN). The Glasgow copy has an owner's date of 15 July 1480. GW dated about 1480-85.
Printed in type 1B:100R (BMC), 1:103/104R (GW).
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-i⁸ k⁶: 80 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto in half-sheets.
Recorded in ISTC and GW as folio.
Watermark is similar to Briquet 6600, dated 1480-1487 (Milan, Cremona, and Pavia).
1 column, 35 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.6 cm.
Binding
19th-century Italian(?) gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports, with gilt armorial of Riccardi del Vernaccia on top board and monogram on rear board. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper flyleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
La Fiammetta
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary blue lombards. Illuminated armorial of Vernaccia added in 19th century (front fly leaf verso) and probably initial (leaf a1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Francesco Maria Riccardi del Vernaccia (1794-1845?), armorial, inscription, and monogram (front fly leaf verso) and armorial binding; Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805-1868), blue ink stamp: "Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti Flor" in crowned teardrop (leaf a1r), his collection in part was acquired by: Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), monogram booklabel, no. 4162 (front pastedown), through inheritance to: Jenny Ellenberger Finaly (d. 1938) and her son Horace de Finaly (1871-1945); Landau sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1948, lot 26 to Maggs for £170; Clifford Rattey (1886-1970), bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1989.
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