Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. Del MDXXVII.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Category
Books
Date
1725
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3092750
Summary
Bibliographic description
ii, [9], 284 leaves, [12], 49, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 4to. Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6890. Water-staining at foot of leaves at front and rear. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled full red morocco; sewn on five supports; gilt fillet and dotted roll border frame with ornate row of small tools including crown motifs, with bird cornerpiece stamps; gilt floral roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gilt spine; gilt title on green morocco label on spine; gilt edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687-1865), editor Filippo Villani (d.1405?), author Bernard Baron (Paris c.1696 - London 1762), engraver (printmaker) Pierre-Joseph (Giuseppe) Grison Grisoni (Mons 1699 – Rome 1769), artist Auber, L., fl. 1690, engraver (printmaker)