Cy commence Iehan Bocace de certald son liure intitule de la ruine des nobles hommes et femmes.
Boccaccio, Giovanni,1313-1375.
Laurent,de Premierfait,-1418.
Mansion, Colard,active 15th century,printer.
Colville, John,1542?-1605,former owner.StEdNL
Maule, John,1706-1781,former owner.StEdNL
Imprime a Bruges : par Colard Mansion.,
Anno .M. CCCC. lxxvj. [1476]
Signatures: [a⁸ b-i¹° k-l⁸ m-q¹° r⁸ s-t¹° ( -t10) v¹° ( -v7) x-y¹° z¹² A-G¹°]. Leaves [7], [8] and [292] are blank.
Title from incipit of text on [a1r] (leaf [1r]).
Imprint details from colophon on [G9v] (leaf [292v]).
Parallel title as cited by ISTC : De la ruine des nobles hommes et femmes.
Opening of each book printed in red.
French translation by Laurent de Premierfait.
Ink inscription at foot of front pastedown: uncertain if this be the right price. First page of each book captioned in French in 18th-century[?] hand. A strip of paper pasted to the top of the leaf bears and 18th-century ink inscription: Edition peu commune, mais cedependant peu considerée. Occasional marginal annotations.
Occasional rubrication and supply of initials and paragraph marks in red and blue.
ISTC
Goff
BM 15th cent.,
GW
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Recto of first leaf inscribed in late 16th-century hand: Initium sapientiae timor domini Jo: coluillus. In another late 16th or early 17th-century hand: Achete en Weire en L'isle de Wassure [and] cette prologue est escrit marhinart chevalier florentin et est digne estue leur[?]. In another hand of similar provenance: Agmina dum glorient saltus per operta luporu[m] uterea ingrediens agnus ouile suum 1612 rp[?] [and] co[n]stat aeterna positumq[ue] lege est, quod co[n]stat genitu[m] nihil. haec boetius in co[n]solatione ph[ilosoph]iae. Ink inscription at head of recto of front free endpaper: Jo. Maule. Armorial bookplate of Mr Baron Maule on front pastedown. Advocates Library ex libris inscription dated 1782 on recto of front free endpaper.
Old calf with modern National Library reback.
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