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A very beautiful new hystori of the high love of the royal prince Florio: and of his dear Bianceffora: you should get great pleasure from it. Also worth mentioning: how great the love is. With beautiful figures. (On the last leaf:) Metz, Caspar Hochfeder, August 2, 1500. fol. Gothic type; 45 lines and headline; printed in two columns. 106 leaves (instead of 130 leaves, namely: 4 unnum. Title and index and 102 Roman foliated leaves; quire numbering: [4], a1-2, b4-5, c6, d1-5, f3-6, g-r6, s1-2 and 5-6, t-x6). With 82 (of 96) woodcuts. Newly bound in a brown half pigskin binding with gilt-stamped spine titles (signed Hedberg). ISTC no. ib00747000. GKW 04471. BMC III 664(IB.12721) . Goff B-747 (1 single copy in private ownership). Marburger Repertorium zur Übersetzungsliteratur im deutschen Frühhumanismus no. 20400. Goedeke I, 353, 14, 2. Larger fragment of the second edition of the anonymous German translation of Boccaccio's "Filocolo" (first published in 1499, also by Hochfeder in Metz), of extreme rarity. ISTC and GKW list only 12 copies; the Marburg repertory also lists the present copy as the 13th, which was published in 1906 in cat. XL of the Jacques Rosenthal company under no. 2241 and which has since been considered lost. Pages 3-9, 12-17 and pp. 32, 105 and 106 with 14 woodcuts are missing. The very large-format and specifically narrative woodcuts - they cover both columns and take up more than half the height of the pages - are the same as in the 1499 edition; the artist is unknown. The woodcuts are in fine, fresh impressions. Only the left-hand column of the second leaf (register) is present. Fold tears in the first four and the last leaf repaired. Tears with loss of image and text in leaves XXXVI, XXXVII and LXXXI. The first five leaves heavily dampstained and stained, otherwise a quite clean copy. Marginalia in German by various hands, including one contemporary hand, scattered throughout the volume. Ownership inscription by Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1906 - Enclosed is a letter from the Swedish collector Otto Smith to E.P. Goldschmidt December 1, 1925.
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A very beautiful new hystori of the high love of the royal prince Florio: and of his dear Bianceffora: you should get great pleasure from it. Also worth mentioning: how great the love is. With beautiful figures. (On the last leaf:) Metz, Caspar Hochfeder, August 2, 1500. fol. Gothic type; 45 lines and headline; printed in two columns. 106 leaves (instead of 130 leaves, namely: 4 unnum. Title and index and 102 Roman foliated leaves; quire numbering: [4], a1-2, b4-5, c6, d1-5, f3-6, g-r6, s1-2 and 5-6, t-x6). With 82 (of 96) woodcuts. Newly bound in a brown half pigskin binding with gilt-stamped spine titles (signed Hedberg). ISTC no. ib00747000. GKW 04471. BMC III 664(IB.12721) . Goff B-747 (1 single copy in private ownership). Marburger Repertorium zur Übersetzungsliteratur im deutschen Frühhumanismus no. 20400. Goedeke I, 353, 14, 2. Larger fragment of the second edition of the anonymous German translation of Boccaccio's "Filocolo" (first published in 1499, also by Hochfeder in Metz), of extreme rarity. ISTC and GKW list only 12 copies; the Marburg repertory also lists the present copy as the 13th, which was published in 1906 in cat. XL of the Jacques Rosenthal company under no. 2241 and which has since been considered lost. Pages 3-9, 12-17 and pp. 32, 105 and 106 with 14 woodcuts are missing. The very large-format and specifically narrative woodcuts - they cover both columns and take up more than half the height of the pages - are the same as in the 1499 edition; the artist is unknown. The woodcuts are in fine, fresh impressions. Only the left-hand column of the second leaf (register) is present. Fold tears in the first four and the last leaf repaired. Tears with loss of image and text in leaves XXXVI, XXXVII and LXXXI. The first five leaves heavily dampstained and stained, otherwise a quite clean copy. Marginalia in German by various hands, including one contemporary hand, scattered throughout the volume. Ownership inscription by Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1906 - Enclosed is a letter from the Swedish collector Otto Smith to E.P. Goldschmidt December 1, 1925.
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