1902 : Decamerone (vol. 1)
Number
1902
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Add. 35322 (+ Add. 35323)
Owners before c.1550
- Edward Seymour, earl of Somerset (d.1552)
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1475-1500 (c.1460-1490 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 273 (1+272) leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 475 mm
- Width of text blocks : 335 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 5
- Number of miniatures : 5
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
- M Chattering Hands
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
- Boccaccio
Translators
- Laurent de Premierfait
Contents
- 1 : Decamerone (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.157
Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne lecteurs de Froissart. Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des Chroniques, Turnhout 1998, (M Froissart de Commynes)
Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.261-2
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.65, 581 (M Chattering Hands, no. 19)
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 284
Catherine Reynolds, ‘Illustrated Boccaccio Manuscripts in the British Library (London)’, Studi sul Boccaccio, 17 (1988), 113-181, p. 131