Detail View: RIT CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION: Il Decameron

Filename: 
cc_108981_boccaccio
Identifier: 
cc_108981_boccaccio
Title: 
Il Decameron
Creator: 
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Subject: 
Manuscripts - 16th century
Subject: 
Decorated initials
Subject: 
Vellum
Subject: 
Chancery italic
Subject: 
Calligraphy
Summary: 
Manuscript from unknown calligrapher of Boccaccio's Decameron with chapter titles and initials left incomplete and presumably unpainted.
Summary: 
Bound in cream-colored leather. Dark red label with gold-tooled titling across spine along with gilt-tooled accent lines along raised bindings. Slipcase covered in white and green paper with hand-painted black and white dotted pattern. Includes facsimile and 1969 letter from Bruce Barker-Benfield, Bodleian Libary, Oxford, requesting information from Paul Standard regarding manuscript in addition to another hand-written half-sheet in Italian.
Digital Publisher: 
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Contributor: 
Standard, Paul, 1896-1992, collector
Date of Original: 
1550 approximate
Date of Digitization: 
2021
Broad Type: 
still image
Specific Type: 
manuscripts
Digital File Format: 
jpeg
Physical Format: 
books
Language: 
Italian
Original Item Location: 
108981
Library Collection: 
Paul Standad Graphic Arts Collection
Digital Project: 
2021_0074_boccaccio
Catalog Record: 
https://albert.rit.edu/record=b4233379~S3
Place: 
Italy
Rights: 
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