Detail View: Early Printing Collection: Bookreader 18201

Image Number: 
Bookreader 18201
Reference Number: 
Spencer 18201
Link to Catalogue: 
Parent Work Title: 
Decamerone
Creator: 
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator: 
San Jacopo di Ripoli (Convent: Florence, Italy)
Creator Role: 
Printer
Display Creator: 
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Date Created: 
1483-05-13
Publication Details: 
Florence: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli
Language: 
Italian
Subject: 
Italian literature
Subject: 
Allegories--Early works to 1800
Category of Material: 
Printed
Sub-Category: 
Incunabula
Technique Used: 
Woodcut (process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Item Height: 
295 mm
Item Width: 
222 mm
Item Depth: 
61 mm
Provenance: 
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Notes: 
'Il centonovelle' is recorded as completed on 13 May 1483 in the Ripoli Diario. N. 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. Cited in: HR 3271; Pell 2437; IGI 1775; GW 447; ISTC ib00726500.