De Claris Mulieribus (Of Illustrious Women)
Giovanni Boccaccio
(Italian, 1313–1375)
Unidentified artist, German, 15th century
Johann Zainer
(German, active 1473–1493)
1473
Place of PublicationUlm, Germany
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 81 woodcuts
DimensionsOverall: 30.5 x 21.7 x 3 cm (12 x 8 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession number31.1401
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Not on viewClassificationsIllustrated books
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(Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1473) Folio; 118 leaves; blind- and gilt-stamped red leather binding.
ProvenanceUnidentified collector (blue leather shield label with rampant fox? and three stars); Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823; his sales May-June 1824, lot 621 [£26,5s]); Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831: Syston Park bookplate and monogram label); Syston Park sale, London, Sotheby, 1884, lot 305 (£29,10, to Bernard Quaritch, London); George Dunn (1864-1912, his sales, third portion, London, Sotheby, November 1917, lot 1927 [£290, to Bernard Quaritch, London]); Edouard Rahir (1862-1924), from whose sale, Paris, lot 264, purchased by MFA for $6,500, May 1931.
