Teseida.

Accession number: 
PML 26670
Author: 
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Published: 
[Ferrara] : [Augustinus Carnerius], .M°.CCCC°.LXXIIIII°. [1475].
Description: 
[164] leaves ; 33 cm. (folio)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1929.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon (leaf [19]/6v): Hoc opus impressit theseida nomine dictu[m] / Bernardo genitus bibliopola puer: / (Augustinus ei nomen:) cu[m] dux bon[us] urbem / Herculeus princeps ferrariam regeret. .M°.CCCC°.LXXIIIII°.
The colophon date appears variously as .M°.CCCC°.LXXIIIII°. (GW) and .M°.CCCC°.LXXV. (BMC). -- (ISTC)
Printed in Carnerius's type 1:115R.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-3¹⁰ 4-5⁸ 6-8¹⁰ 9-10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12-13⁸ 14¹⁰ 15-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18-19⁸]: 164 leaves, leaves [2]/1 and [19]/7-8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Commentary by Pietro Andrea de Bassi.
In some copies the fifth leaf bears Boccaccio's dedication to Fiammetta, while in others the leaf is blank. The dedication is sometimes found attached in error to Carnerius's edition of Bassi, Fatiche d'Ercole (BMC, CIBN). -- (ISTC)
Headline and marginal notes printed in red (leaf [1]/1r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 21.1. cm., trimmed.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [19]/8 (blank). Many leaves with remargined fore-edge, text largely unaffected.

Binding: 
19th-century French mottled calf over paper boards (33 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 7 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Teseide

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication only partially realized (leaves [1]/1r and [2]/2r) with red foliate initials. Alpha-roman numeric signatures added in red, attempting to emulate print. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
[Bendetto Maglione (1841-1892), of Naples, lot description from his sale Paris (1894), no. 2095 (glued-in to front fly leaf but probably not this copy based on date transcription);] unidentified inscriptions: "Req." (front fly leaf verso) and "R" (leaf [1]/1r); Louis Thompson Rowe (1855-1927), book label (front pastedown); his sale, Hodgsons, 13 June 1928 (lot description glued-in to front fly leaf?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, June 1929.
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