Accession number
PML 536
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title
Boccace de la geneologie des dieux.
Published
Imprime nouvellement a Paris : pour Anthoine Verard, Lan mil CCCC.quatrevi[n]gtz [et] dixhuit le neufuiesme iour de fevrier [9 February 1498/1499]
Description
[1], i-CCxxvi, [6] leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf E4v: Cy finist Jehan bocace de la genealogie des dieux. Imprime nouvelleme[n]t a Paris La[n] mil CCCC.quatrevi[n]gtz [et] dixhuit le neufuiesme iour de fevrier. Pour Anthoine verard libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymage saint Jehan leva[n]geliste/ ou au palais au premier pilier devant la chapelle ou len chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Verard's types 3:117G, 6:74G, and 9:62G
Signatures: a-z [et] [us] A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E⁴: 232 leaves. Leaf a2 signed a1, leaf a1 (title page) unsigned.
Paper format: Median folio.
Translated by Laurent de Premierfait(?).
Comprising only Books I-XIII.
43 illustrations, with some woodcuts repeated.
A reissue has the first quire (in six instead of eight leaves) and three further sheets reprinted by Nicolas Savetier about 1530 (GW var, CIBN B-548).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 24 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf E4v: Cy finist Jehan bocace de la genealogie des dieux. Imprime nouvelleme[n]t a Paris La[n] mil CCCC.quatrevi[n]gtz [et] dixhuit le neufuiesme iour de fevrier. Pour Anthoine verard libraire demourant a Paris sur le pont nostre dame a lymage saint Jehan leva[n]geliste/ ou au palais au premier pilier devant la chapelle ou len chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Printed in Verard's types 3:117G, 6:74G, and 9:62G
Signatures: a-z [et] [us] A-B⁸ C-D⁶ E⁴: 232 leaves. Leaf a2 signed a1, leaf a1 (title page) unsigned.
Paper format: Median folio.
Translated by Laurent de Premierfait(?).
Comprising only Books I-XIII.
43 illustrations, with some woodcuts repeated.
A reissue has the first quire (in six instead of eight leaves) and three further sheets reprinted by Nicolas Savetier about 1530 (GW var, CIBN B-548).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 24 cm.
Binding
Modern half brown goatskin, with parchment sides, over paper boards (34 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves (watermarked "AGM Glaslan" and counter-marked "(France)"); decorative endbands.
Variant title
Geneologie des Dieux
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Later(?) rubrication, black or brown initials (when required at beginnings of books). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 389 to Leighton for £34.10.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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