Boccaccio, Giovanni:
Decamerone
ISTC No.ib00726500
AuthorBoccaccio, Giovanni
TitleDecamerone
Imprint[Florence : Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, 13 May 1483]
Formatf°
Notes'Il centonovelle' is recorded as completed on 13 May 1483 in the Ripoli Diario. Neil Harris in Rhodes(Festschrift) p.324 gives the format as folio, not quarto, and the number of leaves as 302, not 308, as found in the catalogues.
The edition was commissioned by Giovanni di Nato on behalf of Piero Pacini da Pescia.
An earlier note recorded the beginning of the operation on 20 April 1482: "Ricordo che a di 20 daprile 1482 si comincio il cento novelle a stampare" (p. 228, Conway)
Language of itemita
Reference worksH 3271; Pell 2437; IGI 1775; GW 4447
Related resourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2010. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 89 - Printing in Florence Part IV, FL 346
Holdings
ItalyFirenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (Pal. E.6.7.12, imperfect ff. (2-4)8, a1, I1-8, S8 copied by hand from a facsimile)
Roma, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (51.C.17, imperfect)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandManchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (18201)
Number of holding institutions3
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