Decamerone

Description

Title: Decamerone
Creator: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: Italy (Florence?)
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Decamerone, 7.8, 30-50 and Decamerone, 7.9, 1-5.
Description: In Italian.
Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria.
Binding: The leaf has been used as a cover for an archival register (?), the upper part of f. 1r being the front cover. It carries the inscriptions "A", "Gioan Giacomo Saba***".
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2002.
Extent: f. 1 :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment.
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Subject (Topic): Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Italian literature > To 1400
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Boccaccio, Decamerone. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.