Incomincia il libro di madonna Fiammetta da lei alle innamorate mandato.

Accession number: 
PML 79802
Author: 
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published: 
[Northern Italy] : [Printer of Antonius de Rosellis, 'De legitimationibus' (H 13975)], [about 1475-1480]
Description: 
[80] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol. and 4to.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased at the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1989.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Place of printing from ISTC.
On the date, see BMC and CIBN (dated about 1475-80 from the types in CIBN). The Glasgow copy has an owner's date of 15 July 1480. GW dated about 1480-85.
Printed in type 1B:100R (BMC), 1:103/104R (GW).
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-i⁸ k⁶: 80 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto in half-sheets.
Recorded in ISTC and GW as folio.
Watermark is similar to Briquet 6600, dated 1480-1487 (Milan, Cremona, and Pavia).
1 column, 35 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.6 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century Italian(?) gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports, with gilt armorial of Riccardi del Vernaccia on top board and monogram on rear board. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper flyleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title: 

La Fiammetta

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary blue lombards. Illuminated armorial of Vernaccia added in 19th century (front fly leaf verso) and probably initial (leaf a1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Francesco Maria Riccardi del Vernaccia (1794-1845?), armorial, inscription, and monogram (front fly leaf verso) and armorial binding; Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805-1868), blue ink stamp: "Bibl. Gvst. C. Galletti Flor" in crowned teardrop (leaf a1r), his collection in part was acquired by: Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903), monogram booklabel, no. 4162 (front pastedown), through inheritance to: Jenny Ellenberger Finaly (d. 1938) and her son Horace de Finaly (1871-1945); Landau sale, Sotheby's, 12 July 1948, lot 26 to Maggs for £170; Clifford Rattey (1886-1970), bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1989.
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