Philocolo.

Accession number:

PML 20953

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Published:

Venice : Gabriele di Pietro and Filippo di Pietro, 20 November 1472.

Description:

[224] leaves ; 33 x 23 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): INCOMENCIA IL LIBRO PRIMO: DI FLORIO: & DI BIANzafiore chiamato philocolo che tanto e adire quanto amorosa faticha Co[m]posto per il clarissimo poeta miser Johanne boccacio da certaldo ad instancia di la illustre: & generosa madonna Maria.
Colophon (leaf [25]/7r): Il libro del philocolo di mesere joha[n]ne boccatio da certaldo poeta illustre qui finiscie. Impresso p[er] maestro Gabriele di pietro: & del co[m]pagno maestro Philipo: in lalma patria Venetia nelli a[n]ni del signore .M.cccc.lxxii. a giorni .xx. die novembre: Nicolo throno duce felicissimo imperante.
Printed in type 1:114R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-6⁸ 7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁸ 10-13¹⁰ 14-17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22-24¹⁰ 25⁸]: 224 leaves, leaves [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 22 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy missing 11 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [24]/1-10.

Binding:

18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over heavy paper boards (33 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports for Harley. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Il Filocolo

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Venetian illuminated initials on blue ground with white foliate decoration, alternating red and blue/purple lombards. Bottom margin of leaf [2]/1 torn away removing illumination, and repaired. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

[Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st Earl of Oxford, to his son:?] Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford, the printed books from the Oxford library were sold by his widow, Henrietta Cavendish (1694-1755), in 1743 to: Thomas Osborne, Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae III, no. 1558; Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley (1808-1869), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books