Bod-Inc: B-378
Boccaccio, Giovanni
De claris mulieribus.
Analysis of Content
A2r Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Letter addressed to] Andreola Acciaiuolus. See B‑376.
A2v Boccaccio, Giovanni: De claris mulieribus. See B‑376.
L3r [Colophon.]
L4r ‘Tabula operis precedentis'.
Imprint
Imprint: Louvain: Aegidius van der Heerstraten, 1487. Folio.
Collation
Collation: A B8 C–L6.
Illustrations: 76 woodcuts.
References
ISTC: ib00718000
GW: GW 4485;
Hain: H 3328 = HC 3330 = 3331 = 3332;
Goff: Goff B‑718;
BMC: BMC IX 166;
Proctor: Pr 9308;
Others: Baer, Die Illustrierten Historienbücher, p. xiii, no. 64; Boekdrukkunst (1973), 189a; Campbell 294 = 293; HPT II 439; ILC 401; Sheppard 7160-1.
LCN: 13959065
Copies
Copy number: B-378(1)
Bound with:
2. Johannes Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio. [Heidelberg: Printer of the Vocabularius, after 1 Apr. 1488] (L‑103(1)).
Wanting the blank leaf A1.
In this copy the last line on B6v (beneath the woodcut) is omitted.
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; single gilt fillets form a border; marbled pastedowns; red-edged leaves; rebacked.
Size: 291 × 210 × 25 mm.
Size of leaf: 285 × 200 mm.
Provenance: Charles Chauncy (1709-1777); armorial book-plate; Howe, Book Plates, 5654; sale (1790), lot 2732, listing both items together. Bought by Francis Douce (1757-1834), at Chauncy's sale for £2. 3. 0, according to his annotated copy of the sale catalogue; armorial book-plate. Bequeathed in 1834.
SHELFMARK: Douce 215(1).
Copy number: B-378(2)
Wanting K4 and the blank leaf L6.
L3 repaired.
Binding: Eighteenth-century half morocco; a gold stamp of a vase on the spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 278 × 208 × 17 mm.
Size of leaf: 266 × 198 mm.
Provenance: Johannes Basan (sixteenth/seventeenth century); name on A1r. Purchased from Parker, Catalogue (1832), no. 6462, for £1. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1832), 3, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 449.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 1.20.
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