Bod-Inc: B-365
Boccaccio, Giovanni
La Fiammetta [Italian].
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Boccaccio, Giovanni: La Fiammetta. ‘Ad Flamettam Panphyli amatricem libellus'. Giovanni Boccaccio, L'Elegia di madonna Fiammetta, ed. C. Delcorno, in Tutte le opere, ed. V. Branca, vol. 2 (Milan, 1984); Opere minori in volgare, ed. Mario Marti, vol. 3 (Milan, 1971), 421-636.
[o8r] [Colophon.]
[o8v] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Cecus et alatus, nudus puer et pharetratus | Istis quinque modis depingitur deus amoris'; 2 hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 2267.
Imprint
Imprint: [Padua]: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho and Martinus de Septem Arboribus, 21 Mar. 1472. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–k10 l–o8].
References
ISTC: ib00733000
GW: GW 4456;
Hain: HC *3291;
Goff: Goff B‑733;
BMC: BMC VII 903;
Proctor: Pr 6755;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑578; Sheppard 5556.
LCN: 13961082
Copies
Copy number: B-365(1)
Wanting sheet [c3.8].
Binding: Nineteenth-century English green morocco, edges gilt; bound by Charles Lewis(?).
Size: 210 × 160 × 23 mm.
Size of leaf: 202 × 147 mm.
On the recto and verso of a rear endleaf is an Italian paraphrase of two passages from La Fiammetta (see [c1v] and [c6v]) added in a sixteenth-century(?) hand.
Initials are supplied in red and possibly blue, removed by washing.
Provenance: Purchased for £21; see Books Purchased (1836), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 5.71.
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