Labores Herculis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bassi, Pietro Andrea di.

Contributor:

Carnerius, Augustinus, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

66 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: Fatiche d'Ercole

Fingerprint:

las- piin u-na buno (C) 1475 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Ferrara] : [Augustinus Carnerius], [4 July 1475]

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon on leaf [h]1r, which reads: Labores Herculis impress[a]e sunt ferrari[a]e quarto nonas Iulii per me Augustinu[m] carneriu[m] magstri [sic] Bernardi biblyopol[a]e filium diuo Hercule secundo regnante. Mo.CCCCo.LXXV.

Chancery folio. Leaf [a]2r: 38 lines; area of text: 215 x 143 mm. Initial spaces. Printed marginalia. Without signatures or foliation; catchwords on verso of the last leaf of each gathering.

Signatures: [a-b]¹⁰ [c]⁸ [d-e]¹⁰ [f-g]⁸ [h]².

Leaf [a]1 contains Bassi's preface to his annotated edition of Boccaccio's Teseida (text begins: [C]ome che a memoria tornandomi ...). "[T]his is presumably due to a confusion in the printer's office between the sheets of this book and the Teseide ... which were both in hand at the same time ..."--BM 15th cent. A variant: leaf [a]1 is blank. Cf. BM 15th cent., GW.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 294 x 220 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1962.

Penn Libraries copy has dated stamped initials ("F" in left margin; "O" in right margin"; "1620" in tail margin) of an unidentified former owner on leaf [a]1r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; 6 raised bands on spine; damaged gold-stamped brown leather spine label ("FORZE DI HERCOI PRIMA E[...]"); green silk marker.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after leaf [g]8 (including colophon) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: tail inner corner of leaf e1 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

Goff B-280

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 606 (IB.25635)

GW 3721

BN cat. des incun. B-183

ISTC ib00280000

OCLC:

249324528