[G]enealogi[a]e deorum gentilium ad Vgonem inclytum Hierusale[m] & Cypri regem secundum Iohannem Boccatiu[m] de Certaldo liber primus[-quintusdecimus].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?, printer.

Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.), binder.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Genealogia deorum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical--Early works to 1800.

Mythology, Classical.

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

296 unnumbered leaves (leaves [242] and 296 unnumbered pages) ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Genealogiae deorum gentilium ad Ugonem inclytum Hierusalem & Cypri regem secundum Johannem Boccatium de Certaldo liber primus-quintusdecimus

Goff title: Genealogie deorum

Fingerprint:

o.s. a.o. a.ua &aes (C) 1472 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Wendelin of Speier], [1472]

Notes:

Additions by Dominicus Silvester and Raphael Zovenzonius.

Title from incipit of table on leaf [a]1r, which reads: [G]enealogi[a]e deorum gentilium ad Vgonem inclytum Hiersale[m] & Cypri regem secundum Iohannem Boccatiu[m] de certaldo liber primus incipit feliciter.

Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf chi2v, which reads: Venetiis impressum anno salutis. M.CCCC.LXXII. Nicolao Throno Duco foelicissimo Impe.

Printer's name from last two lines of poem titled "D. Iacobo Zeno Patauino episc. R. Zoue[n]zonius poeta. DD." on leaf chi2v, which read: H[a]ec Vindellinus signis qui impressit ahenis Se tibi co[m]mendat familiam[que] suam.

Median folio. Leaf [b]1v: 41 lines; area of text: 224 x 133 mm. "Tables in two columns."--BM 15th cent. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[m]¹⁰ [n]¹² [o]-[s]¹⁰ [t]⁶ [v]-[y]¹⁰ z⁸ [A]-[B]⁸ [C]-[F]¹⁰ [G]¹²(G11+chi²) (leaves B8 and chi2 blanks).

Gatherings [b]-[f] in two settings. In one, leaf [b]1r begins: "Genealogi[a]e deorum gentilium Ioannis boccatii de certaldo ad Vgone[m] inclytum Hierusalem & cypri regem. Eiusdem libri proh[a]emium. [S]i satis ex relatis Donini Parme[n]sis egregii militis tui. uera percepi ..." In the other, leaf [b]1r begins: "Genealogi[a]e deoru[m] gentium Ioannis Bocacii de certaldo ad Vgonem inclytum Hierusalem & Cypri regem. eiusdem libri prohoemium. [S]atis ex relati Donini Parme[n]sis egregii militis tui. uera percepi ..."

Explicit of text on leaf [D]7r reads: Genealogi[a]e deorum gentilium secu[n]dum Ioanne[m] boccaciu[m] de certaldo: ad illustre[m] principe[m] Vgonem hierusale[m] & sypri regem liber qui[n]tusdecimus & ultimus explicit. Deo laus.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Boccaccio, Giovanni. Ioannis Boccacii de Certaldo De montibus, syluis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis, seu paludib[us], de nomi[ni]bus maris, liber ... Venetiis : [Wendelin of Speier], Idus Ian[uarii]. cccc.lxxiii [13 Jan. 1473] (Goff B-756)

Penn Libraries copy: leaf [b]1r begins: "Genealogi[a]e deoru[m] gentium Ioannis Bocacii de certaldo ad Vgonem inclytum Hierusalem & Cypri regem. eiusdem libri prohoemium. [S]atis ex relati Donini Parme[n]sis egregii militis tui. uera percepi ..."

Leaf size: 315 x 223 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. notes (in more than one hand?) and a few early marks and underlines in brown ink in text; early ms. foliation of leaves (in multiple sequences) in brown ink in head outer corner of leaves; modern ms. pagination in pencil in tail outer corner of rectos of leaves; occasional evidence of early ms. signature marks in brown ink in tail outer corner of rectos of leaves.

Penn Libraries copy has has armorial bookplate of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, with ms. shelf-mark ("VI. V.a.25") in brown ink (top of plate torn off) on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound by The Lakeside Press, Chicago, IL, in three-quarter gold-ruled red morocco over green cloth; 5 raised bands on spine; spine ruled in gold at head and foot; author's name, titles of works, and place and dates of imprint stamped in gold on spine; binder's name stamped in gold on tail turn-in of left board; all edges red.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf [B]8 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: many leaves dampstained at head margin; leaves [a]1-[c]10 mended at head margin; tear in fore-edge margin of leaf [b]1 mended on verso with a blank leaf; leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff B-749

BM 15th cent. V, p. 162 (IB.19555)

GW 4475

BN cat. des incun. B-542

BSB-Ink. B-583

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1528-1531

ISTC ib00749000

OCLC:

846453269