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'... Le liure des Cent Nouuelles [or, "Le liure de cameron autrement surnomme de prince Galeoth"] que fist et composa ... Jehan Bocasse de Certald' the Decameron of Boccaccio, written in about the middle of the 15th cent.
Prefixed is a prologue by the translator. A long colophon states that the book was translated first into Latin and secondly into French at Paris 'en lostel de noble homme ... Bureau de Dampmartin ... par moy Leurens de Premierfait famillier du dit Bureau. Lesquelles deux translacions par trois ans faites furent acompliés le vje iour de Juing lan MCCCC et xiiij.' Fols. 7, i, xii are parchment, and the middle one bears a miniature of a man reading the Tales to a group of hearers, while a…
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Douce Manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Douce 213
Extents: 12 leaves, in double columns
Dates:
written in about the middle of the 15th cent.