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Bod-Inc: B-363

Boccaccio, Giovanni

De casibus virorum illustrium [French] (trans. Laurent de Premierfait).

 

Imprint

Imprint: Bruges: Colard Mansion, 1476. Folio.

Remarks: Known in four lissues (A–D); see GW.

Collation

Collation: [a8 b–i10 k l8 m–q10 r8 s t10 v8 x y10 z12 A–G10].

References

ISTC: ib00711000

GW: GW 4432;

Hain: HC 3341;

Goff: Goff B‑711;

BMC: BMC IX 132;

Proctor: Pr 9316;

Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. lviii, no. 281; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 102; Campbell (II) 295; Seymour de Ricci, ‘Le Boccace de Colard Mansion (1476)', Gb Jb (1927), 46-9; HPT II 395; ILC 400; Helmut Kind, ‘Die Inkunabeln der Niedersächsichen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen', Gb Jb (1982), 120-49, at 129; Henri Michel, L'imprimeur Colard Mansion et Le Boccace (Paris, 1925); Henry P. Rossiter, ‘Colard Mansion's Boccaccio of 1476', in Essays in Honor of Georg Swarzenski (Chicago, 1951), 103-10; Schäfer 63; Sheppard 7063.

LCN: 13959022

Copies

Copy number: B-363(1)

Bound with:
1. Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae [French]. Bruges: Colard Mansion, 28 June 1477 (B‑405).

Fragment of a single leaf. Text, col. 2: ‘ot triumphal dore. les ſup | plications eſtoyent ja preſ | ques ordonnes aux dieux | pour deifier actili 9  . . .’

Binding: Bound in a guard-book.

Size of fragment: 131 × 137 mm.

Provenance: Francis Douce (1757-1834); a note in the book attests that it comes from Douce fragments. Bequeathed in 1834.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 1.6(2).


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