Wellesley College, P101

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DS ID:

DS16408

Shelfmark:

P101

Title:

Filostrato

Il Filostrato

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 37 leaves ; 295 x 222 (253 x 207) mm

Former Owner(s):

Kirkup, Seymour Stocker, 1788-1880

Seymour Stocker Kirkup WIKIDATA

Wilde, William C. K. 1852-1899

Willie Wilde WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Folio paper with [P] watermark. i2, 112, 212−1, 314, lacking one folio after fol. 12 (II:115-131). Later foliation added before folio loss, so reaches 38 instead of 37.
Layout: 2 columns (95 mm each), 41 lines. Bounding lines in light plummet or creased.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink.
Decoration: A few 3-line red initials in quire 3.
Origin: Written in Italy in the early fifteenth century.
Secundo folio: [blank
Later manuscript index on first flyleaf.
Baron Seymour Kirkup collection, at Florence; his sale (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, 9 December 1871, n. 3274). William C. Wilde collection. Owned by George A. Plimpton.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Cressida (Fictitious character)

Poetry

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Troilus (Legendary character)

Italian poetry

Fourteenth century

Wellesley College Library

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626056

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/29108/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College