Boccaccio's ""De Casibus Virorum Illustrium""

ca. 1470

20.9 cm 27.9 cm

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This manuscript contains Jean (also known as Johannes) Lamelin's abridged French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium (On the Fates of Famous Men). The contents, including the colophon, are very closely related to the autograph work of 1431 by Lame...

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Monastic ownership, by 1556 [1]. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois, Lille, France, by 1849 [2]; purchased by Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham, 1849; Ashburnham Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 10 1901, no. 65 [3]; purchased by Julius D. Ichenhauser, London, 1901. Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, early 20th century [4]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Inscription in top margin of fol. 3r reads: Ffrater Johannes de muer monachus sancti Andree me habet 1556[2] His manuscript number, 501, on spine, and also in pencil on front pastedown, along with inscription ""Cor Sub (?) Sept 1849/old worm holes""[3] Notation on front pastedown[4] Likely purchased directly from Ichenhauser
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