Details

Standardized Title:

Decamerone. French

Subjects:

Plague -- Europe -- History -- Fiction.
Plague.
Europe.
History.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Storytelling.

Form/Genre:

Fiction.
Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Middle French.

Summary:

French translation, by the humanist Laurent de Premierfait, of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron,.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
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.
Binding: 17th-century vellum.
Origin: Written in France after 1414 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by James P. R. Lyell (Zacour-Hirsch).
Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 200.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 27.
Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1952.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 55 (Ms. French 9).
For the date of this translation (and others) by Laurent de Premierfait, see Bossuat, R. Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du moyen age (Melun, 1951), no. 5972.
Bozzolo, Carla. Manuscrits des traductions françaises d'oeuvres de Boccace (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1973).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 910

Contributor:

Laurent, de Premierfait, -1418, translator.
Lyell, James P. R. (James Patrick Ronaldson), 1871-1948, former owner.

OCLC:

155925178