Giovanni Boccaccio, Le Decameron
Bruges, Master of 1482 and Follower (illuminators); c. 1485
Beschrijving
7 two-column miniatures (220/205x220/200 mm) with decorated initials; penwork initials with pen-flourishes (only ff. 2r-16v)
Herkomst
Philip of Cleves (d. 1528); acquired in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadtholders, at the Hague; taken to Paris in 1795 by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB
Codicologie
Vellum, ff. 440, 457x334 (289x202) mm, 2 columns, 37 lines, littera hybrida. French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V
