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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 ?
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman