University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 75

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12643

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 75

Title:

The fall of princes

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

approximately 1480.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English

English WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 729:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 75 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 206 leaves : paper ; 388 x 275 (277 x 215) mm bound to 393 x 278 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 729:6) & positive (BANC MS UCB 75 FILM)

Note:

From the collections of the Rev. Richard Farmer, Richard Heber, Sir Thomas Phillipps, F. Fenwick, L.W. Hodson (bookplate), Sir Sidney Cockerell, and John Gribbel.
Manuscript codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, fol. ii (modern paper) + 206 + ii (modern paper); 18 ( -3) 2-36 48 ( -4) 5-78 88 ( -2) 9-268 278 ( -1); catchwords at the end of each quire; quires signed a-z, &, [abbr. for "con"?], AA-BB; quires also numbered, last leaf verso, i-xxvi
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 42 lines, each column containing 6 stanzas of 7-line rime-royal verse; outer bounding lines ruled in hard point.
Script: Written in a semi-cursive script mainly by one hand; fol. 96, written in a second hand and pasted to a stub, evidently as a contemporary correction of an excised original.
Decoration: 2- to 3-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing; paraphs at beginning of each stanza in alternating red and blue; marginal notations with alternating red and blue paraphs.
Binding: 17th or 18th cent. Leather rebacking over original oak boards lacking outer cover and paste-downs. Top cover has been reattached several times, including recently.
Origin: Written in England, approximately 1480.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 75.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS PQ4274 D285 1480.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Contemporary bindings

Translations

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, English

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035153709706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/228919/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley