Item 11a.20 - Copy in John Temple Leader's hand of 'La Villeggiatura di Maiano'

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Copy in John Temple Leader's hand of 'La Villeggiatura di Maiano'

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  • [late 19th century?] (Creation)

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1 vol., c 314 x 210 x 33 mm.; pp. 1-224, rest of volume blank. Leather bound with green satin ties.

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Note on page facing inside front cover. 'One of John Temple-Leader's MSS. Presented to me by Charles C. Eyre of Villa de' Pazzi, Arcetri, Feb. 1920. Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum F. S. A., 20 Apr. 1920, Florence.' Ownership stamp in a couple of places: 'Giovanni Temple Leader, Firenze, Piazza de' Pitti N,14'.

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Bequeathed to Trinity College by George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum in 1922 (see stamps on p. 2 and 223).

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With elaborate title page: 'La Villeggiatura di Maiano, Ossia l'Illustrazione della medesima e delle sue adiacenze insieme con lo schiarimento d'alcuni punti d'Istoria di quel Paese e della Città di Firenze, e con annotazioni topografiche, ed altre riguardanti le opere e la persona di M. Giovanni di Boccaccio da Certaldo'. Index of contents, with page numbers, on pp. 3-7.

Note at end of manuscript: 'Copia estratta da un Manoscritto esistente in Casa Gherardi, favorito dal Sacerdote Francesco Mencheraglia'.

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  • Italian

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    The fourth chapter of the original manuscript was published as Appendix III of Hutton, E. (1910). Giovanni Boccaccio, a biographical study. London, New York: J. Lane.

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    O.11a..20

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