Croniche di messer Giouanni Villani cittadino fiorentino : nelle quali si tratta dell'origine di Firenze, & di tutti e fatti & guerre state fatte da fiorentini nella Italia, & nelle quali anchora fa mentione dal principio del mondo infino al tempo dell'autore, di tutte le guerre state per ilmo[n]do [sic], cosi de principi christiani fra loro, come de gli infedeli, & de christiani con gli infedeli : historia nuoua & utile à sapere le cose passate fatte per tutto l'uniuerso.
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Uniform Title: | Croniche |
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Language: | Italian |
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Stampate in Vinetia [Venice] :
Per Bartholomeo Zanetti Casterzagense,
nel anno della Incarnatione del Signore MDXXXVII del mese d'Agosto [August 1537]
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Ownership and Custodial History: |
Early Italian inscriptions in at least two hands throughout volume, including underlining, manicules, and other signs of readership, as well as rudimentary marginal drawings of a bow and arrow, eyeballs(?), a bird, a standard, a bell, a human head, a carriage, and a mitre and crozier, among other things; other signs of reading in pencil in numerous locations throughout; twentieth-century lithographed bookplate, signed "AM[?] sc", on front paste-down: "Ex libris Louise Phillips"; clipping with quotation related to title by J.A. Symonds affixed to front paste-down; bookseller's description (annotated in pencil with "not our copy") affixed to front paste-down; facsimile of "lead line of fol. A1" affixed to front paste-down, covering two other paper slips; gold label on rear paste-down: "William Salloch, Pines Bridge Road, Ossining, N.Y. 10562"; description from an exhibition featuring this item available in MSS 466 Box 1 folder 205. |
Binding Information: |
In full sixteenth- or seventeenth-century vellum over paste-boards; "Croniche del Villani", an ornament, and other (faded) markings in ink on spine; blue speckled edges; manuscript binding waste in Italian visible lining spine and under rear paste-down. |
Physical Description: | 10 unnumbered pages, 219 pages, 1 unnumbered leaves ; 31 cm (folio) |
Variant Title: |
Croniche di messer Giovanni Villani |
Format: | Book |
Note: | Imprint from colophon (leaf 2E3v). First edition, containing books 1-10 only; two additional books appeared in the edition published in Florence in 1554. Name of editor from leaf [fleuron]2r: "Iacomo Fasolo agli lettori .s." Misfoliations: leaves 91, 116, 122, 148, 160, and 190 misnumbered 92, 108, 123, 149, 150, and 199, respectively. Signatures: [fleuron]¹⁰ A-2D⁸ 2E⁴. Leaf F1 mis-signed as E. Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), repeated on leaf 2E4v; initials; head-piece; printed marginal glosses; initials spaces, with guide letters. |
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Call Number: | DG737.A2 V4 XX folio |
References: |
Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 385
EDIT 16, CNCE 38451 |
Place of Publication: | Italy -- Venice. |