De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women)

1473

Master of Boccaccio

Artist, German, active 15th century

Giovanni Boccaccio

Author, Italian, 1313 - 1375

Johann Zainer

Publisher, German, active 1470 - 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 81 woodcut illustrations made from 79 blocks, bound with Honorius Augustodunensis _De imagine mundi_ and Marcus Tullius Cicero _De officiis_

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    book: 31 × 22 × 5.6 cm (12 3/16 × 8 11/16 × 2 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.132.1.b

Associated Artworks

De imagine Mundi

Honorius Augustodunensis

1473

De officiis

Marcus Tullius Cicero

1473

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Howarden Castle Library (bookplate). George Abrams (bookplate). (Christies, The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts (7911), Lot 3, sale Wednesday 07 July, 2010); Gift from Private Collection, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on upper cover in brown ink: de ymagnus mundi- / boccanus de cleris feis / Tulluis de offer ns; lower cover lower right: Balbanus; last endpaper in graphite upper left: GA 33v; lower left: collated pp BQ2td / W[?] x i/89

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