30 Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta
Manuscript on vellum in Italian, illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti. Italy, Florence, c. 1480.
267 x 183 mm. 128 leaves, text complete: I-XII10, XIII10-1. Catchwords throughout. – Written space: 183 x 90 mm, 27 lines per page.Text in Italian, in a neat humanistic script in dark brown ink. 133 two-line initials in gold on blue ground with white penwork decoration and filled with pink and green with yellow penwork. 8 five- to six-line vine-stem initials. Title page with full border and historiated initial. – Some rubbing to the title page, the right lower corner of fol. 103 replaced, otherwise in fine condition. Final leaf of the last quire pasted onto the back cover. – Contemporary binding: Northern Italian, probably Venetian, not later than 1510 (cf. De Marinis 1960, vol. 2, p. 1616, pl. CCLXXV and De Marinis 1966, p. 118), blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, using four different tools, four raised bands, gilt edges. One vellum flyleaf at the front, clasps missing, ends of spine expertly restored.
{{Information |Description=30 Giovanni Boccaccio, Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta Manuscript on vellum in Italian, illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti. Italy, Florence, c. 1480. 267 x 183 mm. 128 leaves, text complete: I-XII10, XIII10-1. Catchwords thr