De la ruyne des nobles hommes et femmes.

Accession number:

PML 600

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Published:

Lyons : Mathias Huss and Johannes Schabeler, 1483.

Description:

288 leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Cy commence Jehan Bocace de certal son livre intitule de la ruyne des nobles hommes et femmes.
Colophon (leaf D6r): A la gloire et louenge de dieu et a linstruction de tous a este cestuy oeuvre de Jehan cobace / du dechiet des nobles hommes et femmes / imprime a lyon sur le Rosne / par honorables maistres maistre Mathis husz [et] maistre Jeha[n] schabeler Lan Mil.CCCC. quatre vingtz et troys.
Printed in Huss's types 1:106G and 2:160G.
Collation: a⁶; b-z [et] [con] A-C⁸ D⁶: 288 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Laurent de Premierfait. The translation is sometimes erroneously attributed to Pierre Faivre, the copyist of a MS of the later version (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.

Binding:

Late-19th century (1860-1891) blind-stamped full brown goatskin with gilt-stamped title over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

De la ruine des nobles hommes et femmes

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Some "nota" marginalia in 16th-century hand. Inscriptions: "tout le vostre RP" (leaf a1r) and "Pense massant," by Parker? and "laritine" (leaf a1v).

Provenance:

Margaret Windsor, prioress of Syon ca. 1518-1539, inscription: "Cest livre apertient a moy Marguerete wyndesore / MW" (leaf a2r); Henry Parker (1476-1556), inscription: "cest lyvers partient a moy hery Parkar" (leaf a1v); Margaret Yan, inscriptions: "Thys boke ys myne Margaret yan gevyn by master parkar" (y8v) and "mastres margrett yan" (rear fly leaf recto); Sir Henry Savile (1568-1617), through descent to a Mr. Fullerton; Savile sale, Sotheby's, 19 Dec. 1860, lot 229 (in old wooden boards, worm damaged), to Joseph Lilly for £6; William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Quaritch, 12 March 1891, lot 388 (in Riviere binding), to Leighton for £13; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code: wr/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books