Accession number
PML 1184
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published
Vinegia : Nelle Case d'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea Asolano suo socero, nell'anno M.D.XXII. del mese di Nouembre [November 1522].
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Dedicatory letter by Franciscus de Asula to Roberto Magio (leaves 1v-2r).
Dedicatory letter by Franciscus de Asula to Roberto Magio (leaves 1v-2r).
Description
317, [9] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Faded (partially legible under UV) 16th-century inscriptions on title page, dated 1548 and including "franciscam de asula" (perhaps gift from the editor) and lengthy inscription on leaf 2v.
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmark: Xx.6.24 (front endleaf 1 recto); Gerard Meerman, note citing provenance but not in Bibliotheca Meermanniana; Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'un amateur, III: 169, note by Gosford citing provenance but not in his sale: Evans (London), 23 June 1834; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased 1836, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: [?]B (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
20th-century blind-tooled full brown morocco by Deborah Evetts, 1969; previously in an 17th-century English binding.
Classification
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