Labores Herculis.; Fatiche d'Ercole

Creator:

Bassi, Pietro Andrea di.

Timespan:

1475 (4 July)

Date:

1475

Description:

Leaf size: 294 x 220 mm.; Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1962.; Penn Libraries copy has dated stamped initials ("F" in left margin; "O" in right margin"; "1620" in tail margin) of an unidentified former owner on leaf [a]1r.; Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; 6 raised bands on spine; damaged gold-stamped brown leather spine label ("FORZE DI HERCOI PRIMA E[...]"); green silk marker.; Penn Libraries copy: tail inner corner of leaf e1 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf.; Penn Libraries copy imperfect: all after leaf [g]8 (including colophon) wanting.

Identifier:

9931381173503681; las- piin u-na buno (C) 1475 (R); (OCoLC)249324528; (OCoLC)ocn249324528; 3138117; (PU)3138117-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Italian

Publisher:

[Ferrara] : [Augustinus Carnerius], [4 July 1475]

Subject:

Incunabula.

Resource Type:

Books

Physical Description:

66 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank); 30 cm (folio)

Personal Name:

Carnerius, Augustinus, printer.

Corporate Name:

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Geographic Subject:

Italy -- Ferrara.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon on leaf [h]1r, which reads: Labores Herculis impress[a]e sunt ferrari[a]e quarto nonas Iulii per me Augustinu[m] carneriu[m] magstri [sic] Bernardi biblyopol[a]e filium diuo Hercule secundo regnante. Mo.CCCCo.LXXV.; Chancery folio. Leaf [a]2r: 38 lines; area of text: 215 x 143 mm. Initial spaces. Printed marginalia. Without signatures or foliation; catchwords on verso of the last leaf of each gathering.; Signatures: [a-b]¹⁰ [c]⁸ [d-e]¹⁰ [f-g]⁸ [h]².; Leaf [a]1 contains Bassi's preface to his annotated edition of Boccaccio's Teseida (text begins: [C]ome che a memoria tornandomi ...). "[T]his is presumably due to a confusion in the printer's office between the sheets of this book and the Teseide ... which were both in hand at the same time ..."--BM 15th cent. A variant: leaf [a]1 is blank. Cf. BM 15th cent., GW.

Physical Location:

Folio Inc B-280

Collection:

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)