University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 910

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1716

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 910

Title:

Decameron.

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[after 1414]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle French

Middle French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 658 leaves : paper, color, illustrations ; 280 x 196 (215 x 130) mm bound to 291 x 205 mm

Former Owner(s):

Lyell, James P. R. 1871-1948

James Lyell WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in France after 1414 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: 17th-century vellum.
Title from explicit (f. 657v).
Foliation: Paper, i (17th-century paper) + 658 + i (17th-century paper); [1-658]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 24-30 long lines; chancery folio format.
Script: Written in bâtarde script.
Decoration: 4-line initial with foliate ornamentation in blue, gold, and pink (f. 1r); red initials and capitals.
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (Zacour-Hirsch).
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 27.
Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 200.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Fiction

Manuscripts, French

Manuscripts, Renaissance

poems

Plague

Storytelling

Europe

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9935591573503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3x63bh1x/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania