Accession number
PML 667
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
La fiometa de Juan vocacio.
Published
Salamanca : [Printer of Nebrissensis, 'Gramática'], enel mes de enero del año de mil [y] q[ua]trocie[n]tos [y] noventa [y] siete años [January 1497]
Description
[44] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from xylographic half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h4r: Fue impresso e[n]la muy noble [y] leal ciudad de Salamanca enel mes de enero del año de mil [y] q[ua]trocie[n]tos [y] noventa [y] siete años.
Printed in the Printer of Nebrissensis, 'Gramatica' types 1:91/92G and 2:122G.
PML Checklist assigns printing to Gothic Group II.
Signatures: a-f⁶ g-h⁴: 44 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcut illustration and title, woodcut initial.
Probably translated by Pedro Roche.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h4r: Fue impresso e[n]la muy noble [y] leal ciudad de Salamanca enel mes de enero del año de mil [y] q[ua]trocie[n]tos [y] noventa [y] siete años.
Printed in the Printer of Nebrissensis, 'Gramatica' types 1:91/92G and 2:122G.
PML Checklist assigns printing to Gothic Group II.
Signatures: a-f⁶ g-h⁴: 44 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcut illustration and title, woodcut initial.
Probably translated by Pedro Roche.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19 cm.
Binding
19th-century Spanish full black goatskin over paper boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with gilt armorial "Bibliotheca de Salva." Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Extensive Spanish notations, probably 18th/19th century, bleached and not legible under UV (leaves a1v and h4v).
Provenance
William B. Chorley (1804-1879), name stamp (leaf a1r), his sale, Sotheby's, 21 Oct. 1846, lot 155 for £2.9.0 to "Rich"; Vicente Salvá y Pérez (1780-1849), armorial binding, library inherited by his son: Pedro Salvá y Mallén and in turn inherited by his sons: G. and E. Salvá, who sold the entire collection to: Ricardo Heredia y Livermoore, conde de Benahavis (1831-1896), monogram booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Paris, part II, 16 May 1892, lot 2537; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 199, 8/5/96 and price code: rl/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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