Il Decamerone di m. Giovanni Boccaccio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Gregori, Gregorio de', active 1480-1528, printer.

Delfino, Niccolò, editor.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Decamerone

Language:

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Lucensis Joseph Martini (bookplate)

Bingham, W.B. (bookplate)

Colton, Sabin W. (donor)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, CCCLII leaves, 10 unnumbered leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Decamerone di m. Giouanni Boccaccio

Fingerprint:

e.he o-l- lab- &sno (3) 1516 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impresso In Vinegia : Per Gregorio de Gregori il mese di Maggio dell'anno, MDXVI [1516]

Notes:

First edition edited by Delfino.

Signatures: A-2A⁸ 3B¹² [maltese cross]⁸ (maltese cross8 blank?)

Leaves xxxxvii, lxxvii, cclxxxi incorrectly numbered xxxxv, lxvii, cclxxi, respectively.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Italic type.

"Alle Gentili et Valorose Donne Nicolo Delphino."--2nd prelim. leaf.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full tan morocco with gold-tooled triple fillet panel with corner floral ornaments; five raised bands on spine with gold-tooled floral designs in four panels; author and title stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled and floral turn-ins; edges rolled with double fillet; edges gilt; marbled endpapers.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Joseph Martini Lucensis on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy is part of the Sabin W. Colton, Jr. memorial fund.

Culture Class Collection copy has the stamp of W.B. Bingham on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 109

Gamba. Testi di lingua, 169

EDIT 16 CNCE 6239

OCLC:

15563052