Wellesley College, P751

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DS ID:

DS16416

Shelfmark:

P751

Title:

Vita di Dante /

Life of Dante

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

1st work in Latin; 2nd work in Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 50 leaves ; 203 x 142 (145 x 80) mm

Former Owner(s):

Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805

Matteo Luigi Canonici WIKIDATA

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Simkhovitch, Vladimir G. 1874-1959

Vladimir G. Simkhovitch WIKIDATA

Smith, G. D

G. D. Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Quarto paper, no watermarks. 1-510. Decorative catchwords. Two early sets of foliation, both correct.
Layout: 1 column, 28-30 lines. Text bounded by a single-line frame, no writing lines, prickings for bounding lines only.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, apparently that of Filippo della Strada (see Jackson) in brown ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: Initials cut out.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century.
The Abate Mateo Canonici collection, sold in 1835 to Rev. Walter Sneyd (Sneyd bookplate inside front cover); his sale (London, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, December 1903, n. 577) to V. G. Simkhovitch. Sale by Anderson (New York, 19 May 1905, n. 33) to G. D. Smith.

Keyword:

Biographies

Manuscripts

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Early works

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Wellesley College Library

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626233

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/30722/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College