L'opera de Misser Giouanni Boccaccio De mulieribus claris
Publisher: Per maistro Zuanne de Trino: chimato Tacuino
Published: 1506
Place of publication: Stampado in Venetia
Language: ita
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Women; History; Early works to 1800; Biography
Other titles: De mulieribus claris
Work titles: De mulieribus claris
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Translated by Vincenzo Bagli.

Signatures: A⁶ B-T⁸ V⁴.

[1 blank], [154] unnumbered, [1 blank] leaves: illustrations (woodcuts); 21 cm (4to). Translated by Vincenzo Bagli. Engraved vignette (woodcut) on title page. "The title-cut (94 x 112 mm.) represents a Triumph of Famous Women with Lucretia as its heroine. For the portraits of individual women not only are the same figures made to do duty more than once — a nude holding an apple serves both for Eve and Venus — but a further economy was effected by cutting out a square in the blocks and inserting the same heads on different bodies or vice versa. It is surprising to find such tricks played in a fairly well printed book of this class"--Cf. Perrins and Warner, 1914.

SC/RBR: Later full vellum (title leaf damaged, mounted); some ms. annotations (trimmed in binding); leaves numbered in ms.

EDIT 16 CNCE 6232

Gift: Howard R. Patch, 1957.