tib00751000

Text-inc Id:

tib00751000

Bod-inc Id:

B-370

Headings:

Boccaccio, Giovanni Genealogiae deorum.

Analysis of content:

1. [*1r] Boccaccio, Giovanni: [Table of contents.] ‘Prohemium'. Addressed to Hugo II, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Incipit: ‘[Q]uis primus apud gentiles Deus habitus sit . . .’
2. a1r Boccaccio, Giovanni: Genealogiae deorum gentilium. Dedicated to Hugo II. See B‑369.
3. aa1v [Bandinus], Dominicus: ‘Tabula rubricarum'. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia istud opus genealogiae deorum gentilium est adeo prolixum . . .’ See B‑369.
4. ee2v Dominicus Silvester: ‘Versus super quindecim libris Genealogiarum' (17 hexameters, without verse 18). See B‑369.
5. ee2v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Dum tua, Boccaci, propriis Laurentius auget'; 3 elegiac distichs.
6. ee2v [Colophon.]
7. ee3r [Register.]
8. ft1r Boccaccio, Giovanni: De montibus, silvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, de nominibus maris. Incipit: ‘[S]urrexeram equidem fessus a labore quoddam(!) egregio . . .’ ed. Manlio Pastore Stocchi, in Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, ed. Vittore Branca, vols. 7-8 (Milan, 1998).

Imprint:

Reggio Emilia: Bartholomæus and Laurentius de Bruschis, Bottonus, 6 Oct. 1481. Folio.

Collation:

[*¹⁰] a–l¹⁰ m¹⁴ n–r¹⁰ s⁶ t–x¹⁰ y z⁸ &⁶⁺¹ [con]¹⁰ aa⁶ aa⁴ bb cc¹⁰ dd¹⁰⁺¹ ee²⁺¹ ft ct¹⁰ A–C¹⁰ D⁸. Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib00751000 GW 4476; HC *3319; Goff B‑751; BMC VII 1085; Pr 7250; BSB‑Ink B‑584; Hillard 425; Sheppard 6007-8. LCN: 13961063, 13962348

Copies:

1. B-370(1) First copy Binding: Nineteenth-century half russia over wooden boards. Size: 312 × 215 × 90 mm. Size of leaf: 297 × 205 mm. Occasional early marginal notes. Provenance: Beltramolus Cattaneus (sixteenth century); on D8v inscription in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Hic liber est mei Beltramoli Cattanei'. Collation note dated 1899. Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932); book-plate; donated by Toynbee. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Toynbee 1121. SHELFMARK: Toynbee 3618.
2. B-370(2) Second copy Wanting gatherings ft–D (De montibus, etc.). Binding: Contemporary Italian (Padua?, c.1481) blind-tooled dark brown goatskin over wooden boards bevelled inwards; rebacked. Four clasps (three star nails, forming a triangle), hinging on the upper cover, wanting. Catches (wanting) were in the form of inverted triangles with the apex cut off (four nails). Covers tooled in blind with five multi-line frames; border of knotwork figures of eight between the second and third lines, and of a palmette motif between the fourth and fifth lines; corners of empty borders mitred; a knotwork tool repeated seven times in a vertical line in the central panel. Upper edge dark green, others light brown. No headbands. New endleaves. Same palmette-motif border on Darmstadt, Landesbibliothek, II.204: Petrus de Abano, Liber de physionomia, Padua: Petrus Maufer, 1474; bound with Matheolus Perusinus, De memoria, Padua: Petrus Maufer, n. d., and Conradus Turicensis, De cometis [Venice]: Hans Aurl, 1474, with anchor watermark (resembling Piccard, Anker, IV 242: Lienz 1483). With similar, but probably not identical, border-tool: San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, 94926: Panegyrici veteres latini, Milan: A. Zarotus, [c.1482]; London, BL, IA.23953, S. Bernardus Claravallensis, Opuscula, Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 1495 (BMC V 520). Size: 315 × 205 × 80 mm. Size of leaf: 303 × 190 mm. Occasional early marginal notes in a small neat humanist hand; early foliation and running headings. Provenance: Purchased at the anonymous sale (23 April 1857), lot 261; for £0. 10. 6; see Books Purchased (1857), 9. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. Q inf. 2.14, Auct. Q inf. 2.15. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.66.