BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (c.1313-1375). De claris mulieribus . Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1473. Chancery 2° (304 x 206mm). Collation: [1-11 1 0 12 8] (1/1 table, 1/3r text, 12/8r colophon, 12/8v blank). 118 leaves. 32-34 lines, headline on rectos. Type: 1:117G. 81 woodcut illustrations from 79 blocks by the Boccaccio Master (cf. Weil p.24), almost all cuts partly coloured in brown, green and ochre, 2-sided woodcut historiated border incorporating initial 'S' opening first chapter, woodcut outline initials. Bearer type on 11/1r, 9r. (First and last two leaves cleaned and remargined, marginal repairs to other leaves, first and final quires rehinged, one blank corner cut away, a few minor wormholes, occasional faint stain.) Contemporary south German red-dyed deerskin over bevelled wooden boards, tooled in blind with rosettes, floral and Christ's-head (possibly Schwenke-Sammlung , 10 = Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt) stamps, single chased brass fore-edge catches without leather clasp (rebacked in sheep, rather worn and wormed). Provenance : contemporary annotations (some washed) -- note pertaining to ecclesiastical duties dated 29 November 1524 written on front pastedown -- some bold manuscript headlines and notes dated 1590 written throughout -- armorial black wax stamp on flyleaf (broken) -- Koller (at end in 19th-century hand). FIRST EDITION, AND THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED BOOK PRINTED AT ULM. The woodcuts, by the eponymous Boccaccio Master, are the earliest series of Ulm woodcut illustrations, and appear here in their greatest number. They also illustrate, with the omission of 4 cuts and the addition of one new one, Zainer's edition of the work in German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Amelung dates the German edition to 1474, since only the Latin edition appears in Zainer's advertisement printed early that year, while CIBN gives it slight precedence over the Latin edition, judging by the condition of the woodblocks. The illustration of the apocryphal female Pope Joan, the earliest of its subject and often defaced, is here untouched. This copy has the corrected setting of 11/1.10 and 12/1v.8r, with expanded colophon asserting the correctness of the text. H *3329; BMC II, 521 (IB. 9110-11); GW 4483; CIBN B-513; BSB-Ink B-559; Amelung, Frühdruck , 9; Schreiber 3510; Goff B-716.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (c.1313-1375). De claris mulieribus . Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1473. Chancery 2° (304 x 206mm). Collation: [1-11 1 0 12 8] (1/1 table, 1/3r text, 12/8r colophon, 12/8v blank). 118 leaves. 32-34 lines, headline on rectos. Type: 1:117G. 81 woodcut illustrations from 79 blocks by the Boccaccio Master (cf. Weil p.24), almost all cuts partly coloured in brown, green and ochre, 2-sided woodcut historiated border incorporating initial 'S' opening first chapter, woodcut outline initials. Bearer type on 11/1r, 9r. (First and last two leaves cleaned and remargined, marginal repairs to other leaves, first and final quires rehinged, one blank corner cut away, a few minor wormholes, occasional faint stain.) Contemporary south German red-dyed deerskin over bevelled wooden boards, tooled in blind with rosettes, floral and Christ's-head (possibly Schwenke-Sammlung , 10 = Uffenheim Hauptwerkstatt) stamps, single chased brass fore-edge catches without leather clasp (rebacked in sheep, rather worn and wormed). Provenance : contemporary annotations (some washed) -- note pertaining to ecclesiastical duties dated 29 November 1524 written on front pastedown -- some bold manuscript headlines and notes dated 1590 written throughout -- armorial black wax stamp on flyleaf (broken) -- Koller (at end in 19th-century hand). FIRST EDITION, AND THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED BOOK PRINTED AT ULM. The woodcuts, by the eponymous Boccaccio Master, are the earliest series of Ulm woodcut illustrations, and appear here in their greatest number. They also illustrate, with the omission of 4 cuts and the addition of one new one, Zainer's edition of the work in German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Amelung dates the German edition to 1474, since only the Latin edition appears in Zainer's advertisement printed early that year, while CIBN gives it slight precedence over the Latin edition, judging by the condition of the woodblocks. The illustration of the apocryphal female Pope Joan, the earliest of its subject and often defaced, is here untouched. This copy has the corrected setting of 11/1.10 and 12/1v.8r, with expanded colophon asserting the correctness of the text. H *3329; BMC II, 521 (IB. 9110-11); GW 4483; CIBN B-513; BSB-Ink B-559; Amelung, Frühdruck , 9; Schreiber 3510; Goff B-716.
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