Ioannis Boccacii de Certaldo De montibus, syluis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis, seu paludib[us], de nomi[ni]bus maris, liber ...

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:

De montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

76 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Joannis Boccacii de Certaldo De montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis, seu paludibus, de nominibus maris, liber

De montibus, syluis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis, seu paludib[us], de nomi[ni]bus maris, liber

De montibus, sylvis, fontibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis, seu paludibus, de nominibus maris, liber

Goff title: De montibus, silvis, fontibus ...

Fingerprint:

s-ro e.ru abir daGI (C) 1473 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : [Wendelin of Speier], Idus Ian[uarii]. cccc.lxxiii [13 Jan. 1473]

Notes:

Title from incipit on leaf [a]1r, which reads: Ioannis Boccacii de Certaldo: de montibus: syluis: fontibus: lacubus: fluminibus: stagnis: seu paludib[us]: de nomi[ni]bus maris: liber i[n]cipit feliciter.

Printer's name from ISTC; place and date of printing from colophon on leaf [h]7r, which reads: Io. Boccatii uiri clarissimi de montibus: siluis: fontibus: lacubus: stagnis seu paludibus: & de diuersis nomi[ni]bus maris opus diligentissime i[m]pressum finit. Venetiis Idus Ian[uarii]. cccc. lxxiii.

Median folio. Leaf [a]2r: 41 lines, plus headline; area of text: 224 (240) x 133 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]-[e]¹⁰ [f]⁸ [g]¹⁰ [h]⁸ (leaf [h]8 blank).

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Boccaccio, Giovanni. [G]enealogi[a]e deorum gentilium ad Vgonem inclytum Hierusale[m] & Cypri regem secundum Iohannem Boccatiu[m] de Certaldo liber primus[-quintusdecimus]. [Venice : Wendelin of Speier, 1472] (Goff B-749)

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 marks 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 (continuous with that of first work in volume).

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 [h]8 (blank) wanting.

Cited in:

Goff B-756

BM 15th cent. V, p. 162 (IB.19561)

BN cat. des incun. B-549

BSB-Ink. B-564

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1538-1540

ISTC ib00756000

OCLC:

40567613