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Petrarca, Francesco

Historia Griseldis [German] Griseldis (trans. Heinrich Steinhöwel).

 

Analysis of Content

[a2r] Petrarca, Francesco [pseudo-; Boccaccio, Giovanni]: Griseldis. ‘Epistel . . . von grosser staetikait ainer frowen Grisel gehaissen'. A German translation from Petrarca's Latin translation of Boccaccio's Decameron X,10 by Heinrich Steinhöwel. See Hess, Steinhöwels ‘Griseldis’, 140 gz1; Hirsch, ‘Petrarca's “Griseldis”  ’, 59 no. G. 1*; VL VII 486-7; on the translation see also VL IX 258-78, at 264-6; on the fortunes of Petrarch in Germany see A. Karnein, ‘Petrarca in Deutschland. Zur Rezeption seiner lateinischen Werke im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert', in Idee, Gestalt, Geschichte. Festschrift Klaus von See, ed. G. W. Weber (Odense, 1989), 159-86, at 178-80.

Imprint

Imprint: Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1471. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a¹⁰].

Types: Type: 118 G.

Leaves: 10 leaves, [a1] blank.

Line number: 35 lines ([a3r]).

Type area: Type area: 207 ×124 mm ([a3r]).

References

ISTC: ip00402850

Hain: H 12817;

Proctor: Pr 1528;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑270; C. F. Bühler, ‘The Fifteenth-century Editions of Petrarch's Historia Griseldis in Steinhöwel's German Translation', Library Quarterly, 15 (1945), 231-6, at 231 I, repr. in Early Books and Manuscripts (New York, 1973), 81-8, at 82 I; CIBN P‑157; Sheppard 1124.

LCN: 14496274

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