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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 35310-35324

11. Add MS 35321

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Title:
Boccaccio, Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes
Scope & Content:
Contents: Boccaccio, Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes, translated into French by Laurent de Premierfait, beginning with the second prologue, 'Selon rayson et bonnes meurs', omitting the dedication to the Duc de Berry and verses to Boccaccio. f. 1r-2r: Prologue; ff. 2r-33v: Book 1, preceded...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
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A parchment codex

12. Add MS 35322-35323

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ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST. Vols. XIII., XIV. The Decameron of Boccaccio, in French. Translated by Laurens de Premierfait from a Latin version made for him (as he says in his preface addressed to the Duc de Berry) by "vng frere de Pordre des Cordeliers nommé maistre Antoine de Aresche " (see P. Paris, Les MSS. François, i. p. 242). Two volumes. The present copy, like Royal MS. 19 E. i., omits the preface, and begins with Boccaccio's prologue, "Le propre et droit office," etc.; preceded here by the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
2 items

13. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
Scope & Content:
Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume