L'opera de misser Giouanni Boccaccio De mulieribus claris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Bagli, Vincenzo.

Joannes, Tacuinus, de Tridino, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De claris mulieribus. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Women--History.

Women.

History.

Women--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Physical Description:

154 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

teco :oue eai- moti (C) 1506 (R)

Place of Publication:

Stampado in Venetia : Per maistro Zuanne de Trino, chimato Tacuino, MDVI [1506]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon. Date appears in the colophon as follows: "Del anno de la natiuita de Christo. m.d.yi. adi. yi. de marzo: regnante linclito Principe Leonardo Lauredano."

Translated by Vincenzo Bagli.

Signatures: A⁶ B-T⁸ V⁴.

Illustrations: 105 woodcuts, including one on title page. Most are figures of women, each printed from two blocks, a small head block inset in a larger block showing body and landscape background. A few heads and bodies are repeated in different combinations to provide many "portraits." The large t.p. cut and several others are signed, probably by the woodcutter, with an initial L. Cf. Essling, 1505.

Ornamental initials of various styles and sizes.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in one-quarter calf; author's name, title and publishing year stamped in gold on spine; six gold-tooled panels on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy has woodcuts and pages numbered in ms. (the count not accurate).

Culture Class Collection copy has the words "Chi al ma" written in ms. on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has illegible ms. inscription on last page.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 109

EDIT 16 CNCE 6232

Dyson-Perrins, C.W. Italian book-illustrations and early printing, 178

Essling, V.M. Bibliographie des livres à figures vénitiens, 1505

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 1088

Contains:

De claris mulieribus.

OCLC:

14038941