Amorosa visione di messer Gio. Boccaccio : di nuouo ridotta in luce, nella quale si contengono cinque trionfi : Trionfo di sapientia, di gloria, di ricchezza, di amore, e di fortuna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Amorosa visione

Language:

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Libreria Marchetti (former owner) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Hollway-Calthrop, H. C. (Henry Calthrop) (autograph) (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

78 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

i-e, o.te o.to IlPo (3) 1558 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, MDLVIII [1558]

Notes:

First word of title within ornamental border.

Printer's device on title page; variant device on verso of leaf K6.

Colophon dated: 1549.

Signatures: A-K⁸.

Error in foliation: leaf 36 misnumbered 28.

Final two leaves blank.

Woodcut historiated initials; head-pieces.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author's name, title and place of publication in ms. on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has coloured armorial bookplate with motto "Constantia et labore" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has label with bookseller's description on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. note of H.C. Hollway-Calthrop on front free end paper, quoting a passage from Gamba about the pagination error in the book.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of H.C. Hollway-Calthrop on verso of front free end paper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic note on leaf K7v, with information about a pirate edition published at Lucca, along with a drawing of the watermark in that edition.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. list of bibliography of the Decameron on last leaf.

Cited in:

Bongi, S. Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, II, p. 257

Gamba, B. Testi di lingua, 224

Marshall, R.G. STC Italian, I, p. 252

EDIT 16 CNCE 6344

OCLC:

10944957