Le Boccace de Munich
Subtitle: reproduction des 91 miniatures du célèbre manuscrit de la Bibliothèque royale de Munich. Étude historique et critique et explication détaillée des planches
By: par le comte Paul Durrieu.
Contributors: Fouquet, Jean, ca. 1420-ca. 1480.; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Mss. (Gall 369)
Publisher: J. Rosenthal
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Munich
Language: fre
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Laurent de Premierfait, d. 1418.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc.
Other titles: De Münchener Boccaccio.
Notes: Added t.-p. in German.
Bibliographical foot-notes.
Reproductions of the miniatures in the Munich manuscript of Laurent de Premierfait's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, a translation with additions of Boccacio's De casibus virorum illustrium. The miniatures are attributed by the author to Jean Foucquet.
"Il a été tiré en tout de cet ouvrage trois cent-vingt-cinq exemplaires, dont vingt-cinq exemplaires sur papier du Japon et trois cents exemplaires sur papier de Hollande." This copy on Holland paper.
Bound in gray paper boards, printed in gold and red; tan cloth shelfback and corners; red cloth label on spine, stamped in gold; yellow endpapers.