Bod-Inc: B-364
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Decamerone [Italian].
Analysis of Content
[*2r] ‘Tavola'.
[*5r] Squarzaficus, Hieronymus: Vita di Boccaccio. A. Solerti, Le vite di Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio (Milan [1904]), 695-7; see also Allenspach–Frasso 245 n. 2.
[*5v] [Boccaccio, Giovanni: Autoepitaffio.] Giovanni Boccaccio, Opere latine minori, ed. Aldo Francesco Massèra, in G. Boccaccio, Opere, vol. 9, Scrittori d'Italia (Bari, 1928), 105; Carmina, ed. Giuseppe Velli, in Tutte le opere, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 5/1 (Milan, 1992), 454.
a1r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decamerone. Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, ed. Vittore Branca, in Tutte le opere, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 4 (Milan, 1976), 3-964.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 20 June 1492. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [*6] a8 b–y6 z4.
Illustrations: On a1r a woodcut border; 112 woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ib00728000
GW: GW 4449;
Hain: HC 3277 bis;
Goff: Goff B‑728;
Proctor: Pr 4524;
Others: Essling 640; Sander 1060; Sheppard 3888.
LCN: 13959060
Copies
Copy number: B-364(1)
Bound with:
2. Masuccio Salernitano, Novellino. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 21 July 1492 (M‑142).
Wanting the blank leaf [*6].
Binding: Seventeenth-century(?) English gold-tooled limp parchment, formerly chained; two ties lost; with arms stamped in gold of George Carew, Lord Carew of Clopton and Earl of Totnes; three lions passant in pale. On front endleaf instruction to the binder.
Size: 316 × 232 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 314 × 212 mm.
Early marginal notes in Italian.
Provenance: Possibly Edward Dudley, 4th Lord Dudley (†1586); on b4r: ‘mihi Edward Duddley 2306'. George Carew, Lord Carew of Clopton and Earl of Totnes (1555-1629). John Selden (1584-1654); see MS. Broxb. 84. 10, p. 18. Presented in 1659.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: B 1. 10 Art. Seld.
SHELFMARK: S. Seld. c.2(1).
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