Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio : nuouamente corretto et con diligentia stampato. M.D.XXVII.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Delfino, Niccolo.

Heredi di Philippo de Giunta, printers.

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Plague--Europe--History--Fiction.

Plague.

Europe.

History.

Storytelling--Fiction.

Storytelling.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Robinson, Howard (bookplate)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 284 leaves ; 24 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

17la alna ilhe qupr (3) 1527 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impresso in Firenze : Per li heredi di Philippo di Giunta, 1527, a di xiiij del mese d'aprile [that is, 1729]

Notes:

This edition is a type facsimile of the edition of 1527, it was printed in Venice in 1729. Distinguished from the edition of 1527 in having both printer's marks of the same size, in having rounded rather than pointed "a"s in the text, in having the errors in foliation corrected, and in having the reading "Decemeron" in line 7 on the recto of p. [3] at the beginning.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: 2A⁸ a-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-H⁸ I¹².

Leaf 2A8 (1st group) is blank.

Edited by Niccolo Delfino.

Initial spaces with guide letters.

Printed in italics.

Giuntine marks on title page and verso of final leaf are of the same size: 53 x 34; in 1527 edition it is 53 x 34 and 58 x 37 respectively.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author's name and title blind-stamped on spine; all edges speckled red.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Howard Robinson on front pastedown.

Cited in:

I Giunti tipografi editori di Firenze v.1, p. 133

Renouard, A.A. Annali delle editione aldine, p. 1-11

Brunet. Manuel du libraire, I, p. 999

Gamba, Testi di lingua, p. 39

OCLC:

17395586