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Von ettlichen frauen.

Accession number
PML 20586
Creator
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Object title

Von ettlichen frauen.

Published

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 19 February [14]79.

Description

[8] i-cxxxix [1] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from incipit of tabula (leaf [1]/1r): Hyenach volte der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauer von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet.
Colophon (leaf [15]/9v): Hÿe enndet sich das büchlein vo[n] denen Johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat/ unnd doctor Heinricus steinhöwel geteütschet. Gedruckt und volenndet in d[er] stat Augspurg vo[n] Anthoni Sorgen An freÿtag nach sant Valenteins tag Anno [etc] .lxxix. jare.
Printed in Sorg's type 2:118G.
Collation: [1⁸; 2-15¹⁰]: 148 leaves, leaf [15]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20.7 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [15]/10 (blank), perhaps bound before leaf [1]/1.
Binding
19th-century blind-stamped English sheepskin, with central panels from a contemporary blind-stamped Augsburg binding (Augsburg, Zu Einhorn workshop, EBDB w002114), over paper boards (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with one contemporary fly leaf in front; plain endbands.
Variant title
Von etlichen frowen
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations but frequent pentrials. Abraded inscription on contemporary front fly leaf, barely visible under UV.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 86 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).
Classification
Century
Department