Von ettlichen frauen.

Accession number: 
PML 20586
Author: 
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published: 
Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 19 February [14]79.
Description: 
[8] i-cxxxix [1] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes: 

Title from incipit of tabula (leaf [1]/1r): Hyenach volte der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauer von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet.
Colophon (leaf [15]/9v): Hÿe enndet sich das büchlein vo[n] denen Johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat/ unnd doctor Heinricus steinhöwel geteütschet. Gedruckt und volenndet in d[er] stat Augspurg vo[n] Anthoni Sorgen An freÿtag nach sant Valenteins tag Anno [etc] .lxxix. jare.
Printed in Sorg's type 2:118G.
Collation: [1⁸; 2-15¹⁰]: 148 leaves, leaf [15]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20.7 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [15]/10 (blank), perhaps bound before leaf [1]/1.

Binding: 
19th-century blind-stamped English sheepskin, with central panels from a contemporary blind-stamped Augsburg binding (Augsburg, Zu Einhorn workshop, EBDB w002114), over paper boards (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with one contemporary fly leaf in front; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Von etlichen frowen

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations but frequent pentrials. Abraded inscription on contemporary front fly leaf, barely visible under UV.

Provenance: 
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 86 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Inlays (Binding)
Sheepskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books