Decameron

Contributor:

Laurent, de Premierfait, -1418 (translator); Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948 (former owner)

Name:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Date:

1414

Description:

French translation, by the humanist Laurent de Premierfait, of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron,.

Language:

French, Middle (ca.1400-1600); French

Provenance:

Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (Zacour-Hirsch).; Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 200.; Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 27.; Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.

Subject:

Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction; Plague; History; Storytelling -- Fiction; Storytelling

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fiction; Codices; Poems; Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

658 leaves : paper, color, illustrations; 280 x 196 (215 x 130) mm bound to 291 x 205 mm

Geographic Subject:

Europe

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from explicit (f. 657v).; Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 658 + i (17th-century paper); [1-658]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 24-30 long lines; chancery folio format.; Script: Written in bâtarde script.; Decoration: 4-line initial with foliate ornamentation in blue, gold, and pink (f. 1r); red initials and capitals.; Binding: 17th-century vellum.; Origin: Written in France after 1414 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Middle French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 910