| Location: | Genève |
| Library / Collection: | Bibliothèque de Genève |
| Shelfmark: | Ms. fr. 190/1 |
| Manuscript title: | Giovanni Boccaccio, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes |
| Caption: | Parchment · (I-III) + 179 folios + (IV-VI) ff. · 40.5 x 29.5 cm · France (Paris) · about 1410 |
| Language: | French |
| Manuscript summary: | Laurent de Premierfait translated De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio into French in about 1400. The work described the tragic fates of illustrious personages, mostly figures from antiquity. The translator presented a second version to the Duke of Berry in 1409, after expanding it with notes based on extracts from Latin historians. The Geneva exemplar, which carries the Ex libris of the bibliophile duke, transmits the second version. It is richly decorated with historiated vignettes, attributable mainly to the "Maître de Luçon". |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-bge-fr0190-1 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0190-1 |
| How to quote: | Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/1: Giovanni Boccaccio, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0190-1) |
| Online since: | 12/21/2010 |
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