Historia Griseldis.

Accession number:

PML 23216

Author:

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Knoblochtzer], 1482.

Description:

[8] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1925.

Notes:

Title derived from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): "So ich aber vo[n] stetikeit un[d] getrüwer gemahelschaft so manger frawen geschriben hab und von keiner grösser über die grisel von der franciscus petracha schreibet doch aus johannis boccacy welsch in latin von mire aus latin in tütsch gebracht so bedunket mich nit unbillich sein das sie auch bei andern erlichen frauwen waren historien gesetzt werde..."
Printed in Knoblochtzer's type 3:96G.
Date from colophon (leaf [1]/8r): "Anno d[omi]ni. M cccc lxxxij jor."
Translated by Heinrich Steinhöwel.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut border on leaf [1]/1r and 10 woodcut scenes in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 19 cm.
PML copy with gutter repairs and some margins reinforced with text unaffected.

Binding:

Nineteenth-century red, gilt-tooled morocco with white silk and gilt-tooled doublures over paper boards (28 x 20 cm) by W. Vogt. Gilt stamp of blind Justice on center of top board.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red capital strokes and some highlighting in woodcuts. Annotations: Early pen-trials (leaf [1]/8); modern German bibliographic notes on second front fly leaf.

Provenance:

German auction lot description, unidentified (second front fly leaf recto); Gerhart Güttler (1889-1966), bull's head stamp (every leaf); Paul Graupe, Aukt. 57, 14 Dec. 1925, lot 137 (lot description on first front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased via Joseph Baer & Co., 14 Dec. 1925.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books