Bod-Inc: B-368
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Il Filocolo [Italian].
Analysis of Content
A2r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Il Filocolo. ‘Florio [e] Bianzafiore chiamato Philocolo'. Dedicated to Maria, natural daughter of Roberto, King of Naples. See B‑367.
Y6v [Colophon.]
Y6v Squarzaficus, Hieronymus: Vita di Boccaccio. See B‑364.
Y7v [Boccaccio, Giovanni]: [Autoepitaffio.] See B‑364.
Y7v Mombritius, Boninus: ‘In Philocalum'. Incipit: ‘Philocalum quicunque legis, ne credito tamen'; 5 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Dominicus de Vespolate, [for himself, Bartolomeo, and the brothers Moresini, Antonio Valera and Boninus Mombritius], 14 June 1476. Folio.
Remarks: On the identity of the printer and the publishers, see Arnaldo Ganda, ‘Il “tipografo del Servius H 14708” ha un nome: Domenico Giliberti da Vespolate', Bibliofilia, 87 (1985), 227-66.
Collation
Collation: A–R rr S–Y8.
References
ISTC: ib00741000
GW: GW 4464;
Hain: HR 3297;
Goff: Goff B‑741;
BMC: BMC VI 732;
Proctor: Pr 5890;
Others: Sheppard 4902.
LCN: 13961102
Copies
Copy number: B-368(1)
Wanting the blank leaf Y8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century English gold-tooled brown morocco, bound by Charles Lewis.
Size: 345 × 245 × 40 mm.
Size of leaf: 336 × 225 mm.
On A2r an initial is supplied in red with floral extensions into the upper and lower margins; other initials are supplied in red.
Provenance: Purchased for £28. 7. 0; see Books Purchased (1843), 7.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.28.
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