BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI

Las mujeres ilustres.

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.

Las mujeres ilustres. Printer: Pablo Hurus. Zaragoza, 24th October 1494. Size: 24 x 36 cm. 110 leaves (220 pages). Incunabulum with gothic lettering and 15 illustrations.

With this edition Vicent García Editores commemorates the 500th anniversary of the printing of this magnificent book. Incunabulum printed in Zaragoza, in the prestigious printing house of Pablo Hurus, the 24th October 1494, illustrated with beautiful drawings which represent society scenes.

De claris mulieribus is, along with the Decameron and Corbaccio, one of the finest works of the immortal master of European humanism Giovanni Boccaccio. The National Library preserves this beautiful incunabulum containing 76 drawings of a marked Germanic style.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1994. Coedited with the Madrid National Library.

-Edition of 3000 copies, numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.

-Binding: Parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with gilt leather spine containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish conducted by Francisca Aleixandre Tena (Cap de Servei del Llibre, Arxius i Biblioteques de la Conselleria de Cultura de la Generalitat Valenciana). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua II.