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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16417

Shelfmark:

P752

Title:

Ameto overo comedia de Nymphe fiorentine

Comedies

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice, Italy

Venice TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1488

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 94, iii leaves ; 155 x 217 (162 x 107) 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:

Collation: Quarto paper with scale watermark. i, b-l8, m6, i. First half of each quire signed b-m, 1-4 (first quire is signed [b], second quire is unsigned, but with no text loss).
Layout: 1 column, 30 lines.
Script: Written in a rather rushed humanistic cursive in brown ink. Brown rubrics.
Decoration: One 6-line and numerous 1-line red initials with brown and red flourishes.
Origin: Written in Venice on 18 May 1488.
Contemporary letter (draft) on original flyleaf from Nicolo Vernier to Marc Antonion Erizo. Early Italian vellum spine label with number 885 ("as in a Harvard manuscript"--de Ricci). Abate Mateo Canonici collection, bought in 1835 by the Rev. Walter Sneyd (his bookplate inside front cover); his sale (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, December 1903, n. 106) to V. G. Simkhovitch. Sale by...

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Wellesley College Library

Italian poetry

Fourteenth century

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626083

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Holding Institution:

Wellesley College