L'opera de misser Giouanni Boccacio de mulieribus Claris.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Category
Books
Date
1506
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007994
Summary
Bibliographic description
[154] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4to. Running number: 6984. Title leaf A1 loose, almost detached from sewing. Old stain on title page and through to leaf B2. Manuscript foliation added in black ink (sixteenth-century?) on recto of leaves A4-V4. Provenance: Jean Grolier (1479-1565). Grolier's ownership inscription in black ink beneath colophon on leaf v4 verso: "Io. Grolierij Lugdunen[sis] et amicorum.". Grolier's motto and ownership inscription in black ink on rear vellum pastedown: "PORTIO MEA DOMINE SIT IN TERRA VIVENTIVM." and "Io. Grolierij Lugdunen[sis] et amicorum.". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Eighteenth-century manuscript book number or inventory number in red crayon or pencil on rear pastedown: "A1120", preceded by a superscript "X" in pencil. Binding: bound in Paris by the Fleur-de-lis Binder for Jean Grolier, ca. 1538 (cf. H.M. Nixon. Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier, no. 13, though he states that the binding is "quite untypical of the later work of this atelier for Grolier"). Or bound in Paris by the Eustace Binder, ca. 1525-1530 (the binding is very similar in style to that on Grolier's copy of Polybius (1521) -- cf. UCLA. Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, vol. 2 (1991), no. 172a). Full brown calf over pasteboards, tooled in gold and blind; covers with an outer blind fillet and panelled with two sets of triple (thin thick thin) blind fillet frames enclosing gilt border of an Italianate lacework tool (Nixon arabesque tool EF.12), gilt fleurons (Nixon EF.13) at the outer corners; centre panel formed with two sets of triple (thin thick thin) blind fillet with a gilt fillet between, small round tool (Nixon EF.15) at the corners; four impressions of gilt fleuron tool (Nixon EF.14) massed in a round-shaped central ornament. Single blind fillet on turn-ins. Spine re-backed in brown calf; now five raised bands. Gilt edges. Front endleaves consist of a vellum pastedown and a conjugate vellum leaf; rear endpapers consist of a vellum pastedown, followed by a pair of blank paper leaves (one folded sheet with watermark of a pot), and a vellum leaf conjugate with the pastedown. Pencil inscriptions in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "repaired at Cambridge 1955" and "exhibited B.M. 1965". Stored in brown buckram box.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author Vincenzo Bagli, translator Giovanni Tacuino (fl. 1492-1538), printer