Il Decamerone di. m. Giovanni Boccaccio novamente corretto con tre novelle aggiunte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer.

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:

Palmes, Bryan (bookplate)

Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of, 1841-1917 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

317 leaves, 9 unnumbered leaves ; 18 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

e.ra onr- teli dane (3) 1522 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impresso in Vinegia : Nelle case D'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea Asolano suo suocero, Nell'anno MDXXII [1522]

Notes:

Aldus device on title page and on last page.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Italic type.

Register on recto of last leaf.

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-N⁸ O¹⁰ P-Q⁸ R⁴(R4 blank) S⁸.

"Gran tempo ha ... chella presente opera ... alla sua uera & sana lettione ridotta ... dalla ricordeuole memoria di .M. Aldo Manutio Romano" (Torresani's preface, verso of t.p.).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full green marocco with gold-tooled double fillet border; Aldine device stamped in gold on front cover; five raised panels on spine with six gold-tooled panels; title and imprint gold-stamped in two panels on spine; edges ruled with double fillet; gold-tooled and floral turn-ins; all egdes gilt.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Major Bryan Palmes on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Earl of Cromer on front free end paper.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 110

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, p. 95, no. 5

Adams B2146

OCLC:

54219103