Rochester Institute of Technology, 108981

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30577

Shelfmark:

108981

Title:

Il Decameron /

Decameron

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

1550?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

vellum

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 166 leaves, bound in slipcase : vellum; 33 x 25 x 5 cm.

Note:

Title taken from pencil inscription on front flyleaf verso.
Dating from enclosed letter.
Pagination written in pencil at right bottom of each leaf.
Includes facsimile and 1969 letter from Bruce Barker-Benfield, Bodleian Library, Oxford, requesting information from Paul Standard regarding manuscript in addition to another hand-written half sheet in Italian.
From the Paul Standad Graphic Arts Collection.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

Sixteenth century

vellum (parchment)

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/s/01140z

IIIF Manifest:

https://digitalcollections.rit.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RIT~1~1~972~8819/manifest

Holding Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology