Boccaccio's ""Casibus Virorum Illustrium""

This manuscript represents one of six known copies of Laurent de Premierfait's original French translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De Casibus Vivorum Illustrium. Premierfait's name can be found in the colophon (fol. 291v). This ca. 1400 translation has a more direct correlatio...

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Biblioteca Santangelo [1]. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Barrois, Lille, early-mid 19th century [2]. Purchased by Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, Sussex, England, 1849; Earl of Ashburnham Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 10 1901, no. 64; purchased by J. J. Leighton, London, 1901; Purchased Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931. [1] Engraved bookplate on front pastedown[2] His collection number 491 on front pastedown[3]
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