1903 : Decamerone (vol. 2)
Number
1903
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Add. 35323 (+ Add. 35322)
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
- 217 (216+1) 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. 2)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.157
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. 20)
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