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". (hoc)
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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/1
Parchment · (I-III) + 179 folios + (IV-VI) ff. · 40.5 x 29.5 cm · France (Paris) · ca. 1410
Giovanni Boccaccio, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes
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