Bod-Inc: B-362
Boccaccio, Giovanni
De casibus virorum illustrium [English] The falle of princis.
Analysis of Content
a2r [Lydgate, John]: ‘Prologus'. Addressed to Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester. John Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Henry Bergen (Washington, 1923), 1-13. On the printer's copy, Manchester, John Rylands University Library, English MS. 2, see Ford, ‘Author's Autograph', no. 26.
a5r Boccaccio, Giovanni: De casibus virorum illustrium. ‘The falle of princis, princessis [and] other nobles'. Translated by John Lydgate. Dedicated to Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester. Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen 13-673; 675-1020.
H3r [Lydgate, John]: ‘The wordes of the translatoure'. Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen 1021-2.
H3r [Colophon.]
H3v ‘Greneacres a L'enuoye vpon John Bochas'. Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen 1023.
Imprint
Imprint: London: Richard Pynson, 27 Jan. 1494. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–m8 n6 o–v A–F8 G6 H4.
Illustrations: Nine woodcuts; see Hodnett nos 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, and 1960, also BMC.
References
ISTC: ib00710000
GW: GW 4431;
Hain: HC 3345;
Goff: Goff B‑710;
BMC: BMC XI;
Proctor: Pr 9783;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xlvi, no. 228; Duff 46; Lydgate, Fall of Princes, ed. Bergen, part IV, 109-15; Oates 4197; Sheppard 7535; STC 3175. Facsimile: English Experience, no. 777 (Amsterdam, 1976).
LCN: 13959080
Copies
Copy number: B-362(1)
Wanting the blank leaf a1 and leaf H4 with the device.
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English blind-tooled calf.
Size: 298 × 225 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 291 × 211 mm.
Provenance: Digby (before 1654); on H3v ‘Decrevi in eternum qd' Dygby'. On H3v ‘1559 Nil tam noset(!) quam male(!) societas, qd' george rodiat'. On H3v ‘In the I putte my truste, o Lorde, lete me neuer be confounded. | Thomas [ ]ley'; the name erased and replaced by ‘Wi: Bromley'; William Bromley (fl. before 1654). John Selden (1584-1654); MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. Presented in 1659.
Former Bodleian shelfmarks: L 3.13 Jur.; N 2.8 Jur.; Auct. QQ sup. 2.12.
SHELFMARK: Arch. G d.26.
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