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Fiammetta.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Incunables Inc B-737
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Language:
- Italian
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Penn Provenance:
- Macauley Library (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 66 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Goff title: Fiammetta (Italian)
- Fingerprint:
- tema arla opro &ile (C) 1491 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- I[m]presso in Venesia : [Per] Maximo de Papia [that is, Maximus de Butricis], Ne gli anni del Signore Mcccclxxxxi Adi xxiiii Septembre [24 Sept. 1491]
- Notes:
- "Commentia illibro ditato a Fiammetta da essa alla inamorata mandato explecto perlo illusre poeta et oratore grauissimo Giouani Boccacio."--Leaf a2r.
- Imprint from colophon on leaf i4v, which reads: Finisse il libro di madon[n]a Fia[m]metta alamorose do[n]ne ma[n]dato co[m]posto [per] miser Ioha[n]ne boccazo poeta illustre & i[m]presso in Venesia [per] Maximo de Papia ne gli anni del signore .M.cccc. lxxxxi. Adi xxiiii. Septembre.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf a3r: 38 lines; area of text: 155 x 102 mm. Initial spaces, some with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.
- Signatures: a-g⁸ h⁶ i⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 210 x 153 mm.
- Without rubrication.
- Penn Libraries copy has a few guide letters supplied in ms. in brown ink; ms. shelf-mark(?) ("MAE") in brown ink on back pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy is from the Macauley Library.
- Penn Libraries copy: many leaves dampstained; title leaf mounted on a blank leaf; gathering a detached from spine (several leaves mended at inner margin); leaves of gathering d bound in out of order as follows: d1, d2, d4, d3, d6, d5, d7, d8.
- Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged; spine and left board detached from textblock.
- Cited in:
- Goff B-737
- BM 15th cent. V, p. 502 (IA.23790)
- GW 4460
- BSB-Ink. B-579
- BN cat. des incun. B-536
- Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2478
- ISTC ib00737000
- OCLC:
- 249332798
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