Accession number
PML 38242
Creator
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Object title
Historia Griseldis.
Published
[Ulm] : [Johann Zainer], [approximately 1473]
Description
[12] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1944.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zainer's type 1:116G.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.2 x 17.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/12 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zainer's type 1:116G.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.2 x 17.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/12 (blank).
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in an elaborate retrospective style, over paper boards (25 x 18 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endband; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication, contemporary capital strokes and underlining of prologue. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., unknown catalogue, no. 117; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper, Dec. 1944.
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