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Title

Decameron

Authors

• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Other related names

• Laurent, de Premierfait, d. 1418, translator
• Lyell, James P. R. b. 1871, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 910
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935591573503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122542309
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3559157

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle French

Origin

Date

after 1414

Place

France

Summary

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

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (f. 657v).
   

Extent

658 leaves : 280 x 196 (215 x 130) mm. bound to 291 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 658 + i (17th-century paper); [1-658]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

17th-century vellum.

Layout

Written in 24-30 long lines; chancery folio format.

Decoration

4-line initial with foliate ornamentation in blue, gold, and pink (f. 1r); red initials and capitals.

Script

Written in bâtarde script.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Plague--Europe--History--Fiction
• Storytelling--Fiction

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, French--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• History
• Storytelling

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 392r — Illuminated initial, Initial U, f. 392r