tib00708000

Text-inc Id:

tib00708000

Bod-inc Id:

B-361

Headings:

Boccaccio, Giovanni De casibus virorum illustrium.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Letter addressed to Mainardo de' Cavalcanti.] ‘Prologus'. Giovanni Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium, ed. Pier Giorgio Ricci and Vittorio Zaccaria, in Tutte le opere, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 9 (Milan, 1983).
2. [a3r] Boccaccio, Giovanni: De casibus virorum illustrium. Boccaccio, De casibus virorum illustrium, ed. Ricci and Zaccaria.
3. [s6r] [Alphabetical index.]

Imprint:

[Strasbourg: Georg Husner, c.1474-5]. Folio. Polain dates [before 1479].

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b¹² c–e¹⁰ f–s⁸].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00708000 GW 4430; HC *3338; Goff B‑708; BMC I 83; Pr 352; BSB‑Ink B‑558; Polain 705; Sack, Freiburg, 705; Sheppard 288. LCN: 13959025

Copies:

1. B-361(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus. [Strasbourg: Georg Husner, c.1474-5] (B‑377). Wanting the blank first leaf [a1]. Sheet [r4.5] is misbound as the innermost sheet of [d]. Binding: Eighteenth-century French(?) red morocco, the spine with floral gold tooling; gold-tooled edges and turn-ins; lettering in French; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 272 × 205 × 45 mm. Size of leaf: 263 × 183 mm. On [a2r], [s5v] and [s7r] of item 1 ‘Ulmae 1473'. Provenance: Johannes Sphyractes (1508-1578); on [a2r] of item 1, ‘Sum Johannis Sphyractæ Basiliensis et amicorum Anno 1559'. On [a2r] of item 1, ‘Socini'. Christoph Hagenbach (1596-1668); on [a2r] of item 1, ‘M. Christophori Hagenbach. anno 49.' Anonymous sale (London: Evans, 13 Jan. 1825), lot 208. Purchased for £29. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 4. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 1.5(1).