2028 : Decamerone
Number
2028
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 19 E i
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
- his sons
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
-
Date
- Date details : 1473-1483
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 463 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 470 mm
- Width of text blocks : 330 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Getty Froissart
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
- Boccaccio
Translators
- Laurent de Premierfait
Contents
- 1 : Decamerone
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.158
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. 335
Catherine Reynolds, ‘Illustrated Boccaccio Manuscripts in the British Library (London)’, Studi sul Boccaccio, 17 (1988), 113-181, p. 166
George F. Warner & Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, vol. II, p. 347a
Janet Backhouse, ‘Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts’, England in the Fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge 1987, 23-41: Royal Library, list 1
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5746&CollID=16&NStart=190501