Wellesley College, P843

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DS ID:

DS16430

Shelfmark:

P843

Title:

De preclaris mulieribus /

De mulieribus claris

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 254 leaves ; 288 x 208 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Folio paper with watermarks: [p] similar to Briquet 8685 (Düsseldorf, 1464) in the first text, a bull's head similar to Piccard II.vii.385 (Lichtenberg, 1458) in the second. 1-712, 81, 9-2212, 236−5 (cancels). Folio 85 is a singleton that begins the second text. Quires 1-7 [text 1] signed a-g. Catchwords preserved. Modern pencil foliation, every ten folios. 9-line initials on ff. 2...
Layout:1 column, 35 lines; bounding lines ruled in light plummet (1st work); 2 columns, 37-40; bounding lines ruled in brown ink (2nd work)
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive in brown ink; red rubrics (1st work). Written in a bâtarde script in brown ink; red rubrics (2nd work)
Origin: Written in Germany in the early-fifteenth century, the second text (which is codicologically distinct from the first) dated 1419. Among the Vitae Sanctorum are typical German saints Blasian, Afra, Oswald, Henry II, and others.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Wellesley College Library

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Women

History

Early works

Biographies

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626244

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/32308/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College