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Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/2 : Giovanni Boccaccio, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes
Laurent de Premierfait translated De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio into French in about 1400. This work describes 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 …
Creator
- Boccaccio
Publisher
- e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Type of item
- Manuscript
- Manuscript
Date
- about 1410
Medium
- Parchment
- Parchment
Creator
- Boccaccio
Publisher
- e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Type of item
- Manuscript
- Manuscript
Date
- about 1410
Medium
- Parchment
- Parchment
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Rights
- e-codices / Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève (cf. http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/about/terms)
Place-Time
- France (Paris)
Source
- http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0190-2
Identifier
- doi:10.5076/e-codices-bge-fr0190-2
- http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bge/fr0190-2
- Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 190/2
Format
- (I-III) + 189 folios + (IV-VI) ff., 40.4 x 29.5 cm
Language
- French
Relations
- Notice de Paule Hochuli Dubuis, Bibliothèque de Genève, pour e-codices 2010.
Providing country
- Switzerland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-09-09T12:18:29.922Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-09-27T09:29:54.212Z